Sustainable Sailing
@SustainableSailing@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@alienghic recently I watch a video trying to explain the difference between boats and ships.
Their conclusion was that boats lean inwards when turning and ships lean outwards. However, their only example of a "boat" was a speedboat with outboard engines that turned. I think the lean was more caused by the difference between turning the thrust and turning rudders.
Anyway, I struggle with naming. I don't like using yacht, to me it implies a billionaire's toy.
So maybe just Sailing boat?
Large Format Projectionist
@Benhm3@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@cwebber

The Sea Shadow, a design stable enough for me to want to sail on it. Too bad it's nothing but iron filings now.

https://maritime.org/tour/seashadow/

Photo at dusk of the IX-529 Sea Shadow. The city of San Francisco and Golden Gate Bridge are hazily visible in dark greys in front of the faint gray mountains in the background. The calm, dark blue sea stretches from that backdrop to the foreground. The Sea Shadow is pointed slightly obliquely toward the camera. This ship is shown in all shades of dark grey and black. It has a faceted prow that seems aero-smooth but is really to reflect radar away from the transmitters. The small row of flush-mounted windows near the roof are the only openings in the front or sides. The sides are flat and slope at around 45 degrees. The sides continue below the floor of the fuselage, entering the water as full-length blades. These blades or wings connect the submerged, hidden, full-length drive-pods that provide the ship's actual buoyancy: the fuselage hovers above the water, we can see under/through the gap between floor and water in the picture. Visible on the roof are three people, and some antennae for radios and radar. The trapezoidal hatch is open near the centerline, some feet (a bit more than 1m) behind the cockpit windows. While the water is very calm, it's also obvious that the blades cut through the water smoothly, there's no sign of wake water stains on the side. The ship was designed for extreme stealth and steadiness and proved successful at both. The design is classified as "Small Wetted-Area, Twin-Hull" or SWATH.
Photo at dusk of the IX-529 Sea Shadow. The city of San Francisco and Golden Gate Bridge are hazily visible in dark greys in front of the faint gray mountains in the background. The calm, dark blue sea stretches from that backdrop to the foreground. The Sea Shadow is pointed slightly obliquely toward the camera. This ship is shown in all shades of dark grey and black. It has a faceted prow that seems aero-smooth but is really to reflect radar away from the transmitters. The small row of flush-mounted windows near the roof are the only openings in the front or sides. The sides are flat and slope at around 45 degrees. The sides continue below the floor of the fuselage, entering the water as full-length blades. These blades or wings connect the submerged, hidden, full-length drive-pods that provide the ship's actual buoyancy: the fuselage hovers above the water, we can see under/through the gap between floor and water in the picture. Visible on the roof are three people, and some antennae for radios and radar. The trapezoidal hatch is open near the centerline, some feet (a bit more than 1m) behind the cockpit windows. While the water is very calm, it's also obvious that the blades cut through the water smoothly, there's no sign of wake water stains on the side. The ship was designed for extreme stealth and steadiness and proved successful at both. The design is classified as "Small Wetted-Area, Twin-Hull" or SWATH.
Photo at dusk of the IX-529 Sea Shadow. The city of San Francisco and Golden Gate Bridge are hazily visible in dark greys in front of the faint gray mountains in the background. The calm, dark blue sea stretches from that backdrop to the foreground. The Sea Shadow is pointed slightly obliquely toward the camera. This ship is shown in all shades of dark grey and black. It has a faceted prow that seems aero-smooth but is really to reflect radar away from the transmitters. The small row of flush-mounted windows near the roof are the only openings in the front or sides. The sides are flat and slope at around 45 degrees. The sides continue below the floor of the fuselage, entering the water as full-length blades. These blades or wings connect the submerged, hidden, full-length drive-pods that provide the ship's actual buoyancy: the fuselage hovers above the water, we can see under/through the gap between floor and water in the picture. Visible on the roof are three people, and some antennae for radios and radar. The trapezoidal hatch is open near the centerline, some feet (a bit more than 1m) behind the cockpit windows. While the water is very calm, it's also obvious that the blades cut through the water smoothly, there's no sign of wake water stains on the side. The ship was designed for extreme stealth and steadiness and proved successful at both. The design is classified as "Small Wetted-Area, Twin-Hull" or SWATH.
Karoliina
@kskehu@mementomori.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@cwebber

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_training_ship_Amerigo_Vespucci#/media/File%3AAmerigo_vespucci_1976_nyc_aufgetakelt.jpg

"While sailing the Mediterranean Sea in 1962, the American aircraft carrier USS Independence flashed the Amerigo Vespucci with the light signal asking: "Who are you?" The full-rigged ship answered: "Training ship Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navy." The Independence replied: "You are the most beautiful ship in the world." In 2022, the Amerigo Vespucci sailed by the American aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, which saluted the ship and commented: "You are still, after 60 years, the most beautiful ship in the world.""

(Personally I love Kruzenshtern the most but since she is now Russian she is sadly a bit cancelled) (yet another reason to hate Putin vehemently)
Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@cwebber

Real ship this time but also a rapid offensive unit. Billionaire class in this case.

The Akula, on a surprising visit to our small remote little bay earlier this year.

Ugly as sin , but honestly, if I won lottery level money I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Jason Lefkowitz
@jalefkowit@vmst.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
@cwebber Permit me the honor of introducing HMS Captain, launched by the Royal Navy in 1869. None of the admirals wanted her. She was only built after her designer, inventor Cowper Phipps Coles, convinced the press that his design was the future of ships and the Admiralty was a bunch of stuffy old do-nothings.

On September 6, 1870, Captain encountered rough seas off the coast of Cape Finisterre and promptly capsized, taking 472 men with her, including Coles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Captain_(1869)
McQuiniac
@mcquiniac@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@cwebber 18th C American river barge at the Rice Museum [a museum of the cultivation of rice during slavery in Colonial S Carolina, the entirety of the rice growing technology was taken from Western Africa from which the enslavement plantation system grew out of.]