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thør said:
Draw the vectors.
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I'd like to do just that but lack the software. It's easier to envision when I think of an iceboat where the forward motion drives the apparent wind forward and adds to the apparent wind but more problematic when imagining a hull plowing through water.


 
trysail said:

I'd like to do just that but lack the software. It's easier to envision when I think of an iceboat where the forward motion drives the apparent wind forward and adds to the apparent wind but more problematic when imagining a hull plowing through water.
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Water, ice. It's all the same.

Speaking of, I wish i had a DN60 right now. Very little snow and 16" of ice.
 
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Two ships of the Continental Navy were named Enterprise:

USS Enterprise (1775) armed sloop (18 May 1775 – 7 July 1777), the first American ship to bear the name served on Lake Champlain

Enterprise (1776) schooner (20 December 1776 – February 1777), the second American ship to bear this name served on Chesapeake Bay during the Revolutionary War.

Six ships of the United States Navy have been named Enterprise:

USS Enterprise (1799) 12-gun schooner / 14-gun brig (17 December 1799 – 9 July 1823), the third ship to bear this name, was built as schooner, and later rerigged as a brig. She fired the first shots in the First Barbary War against the Tripolitanian ship Tripoli

USS Enterprise (1831) 10-gun schooner (15 December 1831 – 24 June 1844), the fourth ship to bear this name

USS Enterprise (1874) barque-rigged screw sloop (16 March 1877 – 1 October 1909), the fifth ship to bear this name

USS Enterprise (SP-790) motor yacht (1917–1919), the sixth ship to bear this name, was non-commissioned, serving in the Second Naval District during World War I

USS Enterprise (CV-6) Yorktown-class aircraft carrier (12 May 1938 – 17 February 1947), the seventh ship to bear this name, served with unparalleled distinction in World War II, becoming the most-decorated vessel in the history of the U.S. Navy.

USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Enterprise-class aircraft carrier (25 November 1961 – Present), the eighth ship to bear this name, is a unique design, and the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. It was decommissioned on 1 December 2012.

USS Enterprise (CVN-80) "Ford"-class aircraft carrier, the ninth ship to bear the name. As of June 6, 2011, there was a petition circulating online to eventually name CVN-80 as "USS Enterprise".[1]. On 1 December 2012, at the decommissioning of CVN-65, the Secretary of the Navy announced that CVN-80 would be named USS Enterprise.
 


I am amazed this doesn't happen more often in the crowded shipping lanes of the North Sea.


http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?level0=100







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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...ollision-kills-five-as-car-carrier-sinks.html




North Sea Ship Collision Kills Five as Car Carrier Sinks
By Martijn van der Starre and Alex Webb
December 6, 2012


Five crew members died and six are missing after a cargo vessel carrying 1,417 Mitsubishi Motors Corp. cars collided with a container ship in the North Sea late yesterday, the Dutch coast guard said.

The Baltic Ace sank shortly after colliding with container vessel Corvus J, the coast guard said on its website. Five bodies have been recovered and 13 crew members were saved. The search for the remaining six has stopped and won’t be resumed as there’s no hope for survivors, the coast guard said.

“The Mitsubishi cars bound for Russia have been lost,” Mitsubishi spokesman Daniel Nacass said by e-mail, adding that the Tokyo-based carmaker is “deeply sorry for the tragic loss of lives.”

The Bahamian-flagged Baltic Ace was headed to Kotka, Finland, from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, when it collided about 65 kilometers (40 miles) off the southeastern coast of the Netherlands with Cyprus-flagged Corvus J, which was on its way to Antwerp from the Scottish town of Grangemouth, the coast guard said.

Mitsubishi is assessing the impact of the accident on its Russian distributor and dealers, and will try to limit the delay to Russian customers, Nacass said.

Peter Westenberg, a spokesman for the coast guard, declined to speculate on the cause for the collision, saying police will investigate.




http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...ollision-kills-five-as-car-carrier-sinks.html
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This is a cool photographic image.

If you've ever had the pleasure of navigating a vessel in the dark, you'll immediately recognize what's going on here:

http://www.bloomberg.com/image/iHIIywbAgaK4.jpg

A spotlight aboard the Capt. Bill Stewart tow boat illuminates a floating buoy marking the edge of the shipping
channel on the Mississippi River north of Cairo, Illinois.




Ever read Mark Twain's Life On The Mississippi ? You can find people who believe it transcends Huck Finn as the best thing Clemens ever wrote.


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http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2012/12/22/201212226125282734_20.jpg

Netherlands impounds Steve Jobs' super-yacht
All-aluminum $138m vessel owned by late Apple founder will not be allowed to leave Dutch port due to payment dispute.
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The sleek, white super-yacht Apple founder Steve Jobs commissioned before his death cannot leave the Netherlands just yet due to a payment dispute.

Jobs collaborated on designing the 78.2-meter all-aluminum Venus, which has a minimalist aesthetic, with French product designer Philippe Starck.

“The yacht has been impounded,” Rotterdam-based lawyer Roelant Klaassen, who represents French designer Starck’s Ubik company, told the AFP news agency.

“There is some unfinished business, namely two invoices which were issued by Ubik last summer after Mr Jobs died,” he said.

Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad reported on Friday that Starck hired a debt collection agency and got a summary legal order to keep the boat from leaving.

According to the paper, Starck had only been paid $7.9m by Job's heirs, but believed he was owed $11.86m.
 
JackLuis said:
http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2012/12/22/201212226125282734_20.jpg



The sleek, white super-yacht Apple founder Steve Jobs commissioned before his death cannot leave the Netherlands just yet due to a payment dispute.

Jobs collaborated on designing the 78.2-meter all-aluminum Venus, which has a minimalist aesthetic, with French product designer Philippe Starck.

“The yacht has been impounded,” Rotterdam-based lawyer Roelant Klaassen, who represents French designer Starck’s Ubik company, told the AFP news agency.

“There is some unfinished business, namely two invoices which were issued by Ubik last summer after Mr Jobs died,” he said.

Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad reported on Friday that Starck hired a debt collection agency and got a summary legal order to keep the boat from leaving.

According to the paper, Starck had only been paid $7.9m by Job's heirs, but believed he was owed $11.86m.
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I know Steve Jobs has be deified by those who are Apple geeks, but I have to say that his yacht is one of the ugliest boats I've ever seen. Just one man's opinion, but building a ship/boat on the basis of 'fashion' (i.e. hiring an artist/'product designer to determine the shape of it) is just stupid.
 
Kitschshaman said:
I know Steve Jobs has be deified by those who are Apple geeks, but I have to say that his yacht is one of the ugliest boats I've ever seen. Just one man's opinion, but building a ship/boat on the basis of 'fashion' (i.e. hiring an artist/'product designer to determine the shape of it) is just stupid.
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That needed saying.

The vessel is fucking hideous.


 
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