Remarkable Design from France

Pretty remarkable - looks like it was designed by cutting a loo roll down and squishing the end.

Here we go: this is an alternative rig which in some ways makes more sense.



I'm sure the designer put appreciable logic and judgement behind the design. Whether his logic and judgement was well founded... Well, I suppose I ought to postpone judgement until I had sailed one, seeing as I have no idea quite how something that left field would behave, but I must confess I wouldn't go more than a couple of miles out of my way to do so!




Edited by JimC - 19 Jan 15 at 10:16am

Originally posted by Chris 249 You're being very generous there, Jim.

Well, you know, when looking at things that are way outside what I am familiar with I am reminded of Clarke's First Law:

Originally posted by Arthur C Clarke When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Like Grfs peculiar thing, its so far outside the boundaries of what I like to think I understand that I think its unwise for me to make dogmatic predictions. I don't know everything.

I don't know if you've come across "The Athenian Trireme" by Morrison, Coates and Rankov, which is the story of the design of what they hope is a reconstruction of an Athenian warship. One of the things that struck me reading the book was that several times they ran into the problem that key aspects of the design, notably length to beam, length to depth and any feasible prismatic coefficient were simply way outside of the parameters used in any naval architecture of the last 500 years, so there was really very little to go on in designing the craft. Yet just because the design is completely outside any modern experience didn't mean that they weren't built or that they didn't work.


Edited by JimC - 19 Jan 15 at 11:18am

It is widely reported that the ever-so classy champagne coupe was formed upon the breast of Marie Antoinette ...

This appears to crafted around the nose of Gerard Depardieu.

It looks better on the water than off it.