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'Vindskip' cargo ship uses its hull as a giant sail
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| Peter Shadbolt,
Posted on 01/22/2015 8:33:52 AM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
01/22/2015 8:33:52 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin; Larry Lucido; F15Eagle
I packed my rod and reel. 30 hours later, lost in the fiord, a welcoming smile. Thank goodness she spotted the epaulettes on my Norwegian ice-fishing vest.
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posted on
01/22/2015 8:45:18 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
To: BenLurkin; Travis McGee
Some really great pictures of wind assisted inventions for ships at the source.
I think we need some input from FR’s favorite authority on sailing.
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posted on
01/22/2015 8:45:43 AM PST
by
Perseverando
(In Washington it's common knowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible to be POTUS.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/22/2015 8:46:51 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/22/2015 8:57:47 AM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
To: Perseverando
I wonder how stable the ship will be. It looks like it
will not have a very deep draft even when loaded. The ship’s designers will have an interesting time dealing stability issues.
To: Perseverando
I wonder how stable the ship will be. It looks like it
will not have a very deep draft even when loaded. The ship’s designers will have an interesting time dealing stability issues.
To: ShadowAce
Can you say, “knock down”?
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posted on
01/22/2015 9:08:15 AM PST
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: ShadowAce
How many hikers would you say can fit along that gunwale? ;-)
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posted on
01/22/2015 9:19:29 AM PST
by
Hatteras
To: BenLurkin
looks unstable to me. very top heavy
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posted on
01/22/2015 9:34:00 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Maine Mariner
In my world, we refer to this as “Powerpoint Engineering”.
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posted on
01/22/2015 9:41:57 AM PST
by
Pecos
(What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
To: BenLurkin
Several questions about Vindskip:
1. What is it's proposed draft. Major ports are hard pressed to accommodate the current bunch of huge container ships due to drafts approaching 40 feet fully loaded.
2. How will the ship be maneuvered in a confined area like a port when there is any kind of wind? With the huge sail area, the ship will be difficult to maneuver. Its own engines and the tugs can only do so much against such a huge hull designed as a sail.
3. Last, and my main concern, what's the life expectancy of the crew on this ship surviving a major storm at sea. I'd guess virtually NIL.
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
01/22/2015 9:48:06 AM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: BenLurkin
If it’s cost effective, then good for them. Environmentalist bovine excrement doesn’t even come into the equation. If it relies on subsidies to make it work from an economic standpoint, then it’s bogus.
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posted on
01/22/2015 10:29:30 AM PST
by
zeugma
(The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
To: Maine Mariner
Might have one of those longer keel “fins” like some of the speed sailing boats to help limit heeling.
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posted on
01/22/2015 11:20:18 AM PST
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
To: grobdriver
Get back to me when it’s rounded the Horn a few times
or at least once.
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posted on
01/22/2015 11:23:39 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: BenLurkin
Wouldn’t it be cheaper just to build a normal hull and add sails on masts?
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posted on
01/22/2015 11:52:05 AM PST
by
Mat_Helm
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:13:47 PM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Conan the Librarian
Forgot to add that the picture was taken by the previous owner. She is a little different now.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:15:16 PM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: ShadowAce
strange looking
sort of like something out of a sci-fi vision
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:16:45 PM PST
by
GeronL
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