A couple of comments (from a layman) Seeing those seas and what they do to a boat, scares the b-jesus out of me. No wonder many yacht owners...
Good god, just found this on the Craig Loomes site, a design study for a 151m trimaran megayacht. With unusual nacelles, all CL tris are designed...
On the site they say the Spirit is currently under contruction. If you can afford a '50' I would suggest you take a trip to the yards in NZ to...
Here's some pics of the the Austral and Incat multihull mini carriers.
Here's another smaller interesting design for a trimaran corvette, a smaller version of the LCS....
I should think it would be more practible to send basic building materials the people are used to, timber, ply, corrigated iron etc, and enable...
Getting back to the possible, you can use fuel cells with a reformer and kerosene as the fuel, RR have come up with a submarine design using such...
I saw that Horizon program, scarey stuff. Time to think submarine yacht I think. Or at least a yacht that can survive being under some dept of...
http://www.etsell.com/images/Octopus.pdf Wander through this site for lots of pics of Octopus including her garages and tenders. Hmm, the...
Here's another two. Have to say the R44 looks very much at home on the 92' Inace. Not a tidy arrangement, but, well, it is Australian...:P
Hmm, reminds me of a song, "there's a mast in your funnel dear Lars dear Lars, there's a mast in your funnel dear Lars a mast. Well shift it...
Strikes me that working on a yacht you would have to have the personality that is easy to get along with, that likes to pitch in and help, that is...
Love your designs Lar. I have done a quick stretch mod to your Victoria 2 to create my fantasy yacht, please excuse the rehash :D I don't have a...
Here are some more wave piecers from the Craig Loomes design stable. http://www.cld.co.nz/welcome.htm Most of the Loomes WP Cats are quite...
Haven't seen this design for years, wondered if it was built. Like a expedition version of the Craig Loomes designs. Were being offered by the...
A New Zealand company had a similar system it had developed and sold back in the '80's IIRC. Never really took off and I seem to remember the...
Interesting discussion. Growing up in New Zealand as a teen, 35 years ago, we had a 3 jet boats in succession, the first was a 13'6" with single...
6 helos with rotors folded and 2 abreast is still going to take 150 odd feet of your lenght, 30 of your width and 15-20 of your height, can't see...
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