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ORIGINAL: thegreatwent
Blech that yacht is hideous. Anybody know why the tumblehome design has come back in to fashion for ships? I've heard it is part of the stealth package but it has to be a pain to keep dry.

ORIGINAL: JWE

ORIGINAL: thegreatwent
Blech that yacht is hideous. Anybody know why the tumblehome design has come back in to fashion for ships? I've heard it is part of the stealth package but it has to be a pain to keep dry.

Who's yacht? Mike's yacht?

Welcome to the wonderful world of sailboat design. People pour millions of dollars every year into developing and tweaking the racing design rules, and tens of millions of dollars every year into finding any edge they can.

Most cruising boats are designed by racing sailors and are configured to let the owner race every now & then, without taking a major handicap hit. I could give ya 4 big reasons why a boat designed in the 70s or 80s has tumble home – but just think IOR Mk-1 and 2. I could give you a tutorial if you really want.

Given all these hundreds of millions of dollars spent on tightening up the rules, and finding ways around them, using the most powerful computational tools we got on the entire planet, I think a handful of amateurs, working for free, doing the AE thing, is something utterly beyond normal expectations.

ORIGINAL: Terminus
Certainly seems a number of people around here don't know what to make of it...[:D] I thought you'd be on the waves by now, John?

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Bah, Russia is a thugocracy, and money buys the best thugs. He'll be fine as long as he continues to pay the Vory their due.

Yeah I seem to recall that certain people said that about Lenin. "Oh , we'll just buy him off". Come to think of it, they said the same about Hitler. Perhaps our Russian capitalist considers such a vessel a "good insurance policy". [:D]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Bah, Russia is a thugocracy, and money buys the best thugs. He'll be fine as long as he continues to pay the Vory their due.

Yeah I seem to recall that certain people said that about Lenin. "Oh , we'll just buy him off". Come to think of it, they said the same about Hitler. Perhaps our Russian capitalist considers such a vessel a "good insurance policy". [:D]

The difference of course is that these days, the corruption is de rigeur all the way to the top. You think Mr Ex-KGB Vladi Putin is squeaky clean? Of course he isn't; why do you think he's had so many people killed?

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

That is an ugly, ugly boat...

Yep... ugly as hell (and as ugly as all those modern stealth warships of today and future)... [:(]


Leo "Apolo11"

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

I can hear the U2 performing on a 5 km distant stadium from my home... [:D]


Leo "Apollo11"

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Pffft... He's off on his annual "He-Man" trip to Siberia, "tranquilizing tigers" and "diving to the bottom of Lake Baikal".[8|]

Russia...[8|]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Pffft... He's off on his annual "He-Man" trip to Siberia, "tranquilizing tigers" and "diving to the bottom of Lake Baikal".[8|]

Russia...[8|]

He's not going to do it himself... That's why he's got 'not the KGB' on speed-dial on his mobile phone. I wouldn't open the door to any heavily accented delivery men [;)] Or go drinking tea that glows [X(]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

I can hear the U2 performing on a 5 km distant stadium from my home... [:D]

We are going to see them Oct 3 here. Can't wait.

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

I can hear the U2 performing on a 5 km distant stadium from my home... [:D]

We are going to see them Oct 3 here. Can't wait.

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Pffft... He's off on his annual "He-Man" trip to Siberia, "tranquilizing tigers" and "diving to the bottom of Lake Baikal".[8|]

Russia...[8|]

He's not going to do it himself... That's why he's got 'not the KGB' on speed-dial on his mobile phone. I wouldn't open the door to any heavily accented delivery men [;)] Or go drinking tea that glows [X(]

Well, he CLAIMS to have done both himself.

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Dixie




He's not going to do it himself... That's why he's got 'not the KGB' on speed-dial on his mobile phone. I wouldn't open the door to any heavily accented delivery men [;)] Or go drinking tea that glows [X(]

Well, he CLAIMS to have done both himself.

What? Opened a door and drank suspicious tea? [&:]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

I can hear the U2 performing on a 5 km distant stadium from my home... [:D]

We are going to see them Oct 3 here. Can't wait.

Opps... now we know where you are... [:)]


U2
360° Tour

October 3, 2009
Raleigh, NC, USA
Carter-Finley Stadium


Leo "Apollo11"