Ship porn

[nuffsaid]

Looks alright in this pic to me - slick.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It's a deck too high and has an obnoxiously long nose.

 

[Cid]

Duck with an underbite.

 

[Cid]

Six eyed crocodile wearing a hat with two rows of sequins.

 

[Roadkill]

It looks like a sex toy.

 

[Saratoga]

It looks like a sex toy.

It's a bit sharp for one of those isn't it

 

[nuffsaid]

Apparently it's sprung a leak 'Starship Enterprise' $4 billion destroyer USS Zumwalt springs a leak

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's a deck too high and has an obnoxiously long nose.

Damn Jooz with their long noses!!!

 

[T & P]

Although I'm sure the new shape helps reduce their radar signature somewhat, I can't believe a ship can be made stealthy enough to avoid any modern radar system/ anti ship missile. What are the stats on such ships?

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Ethereal

http://threesheetsnw.com/files/2011/06/ethereal1.jpg

Owner wrote my favourite Unix editor back in the day (before he founded Sun, sold it to Oracle and spent the proceeds on fancy eco-yachts)

 

[kebabking]

Although I'm sure the new shape helps reduce their radar signature somewhat, I can't believe a ship can be made stealthy enough to avoid any modern radar system/ anti ship missile. What are the stats on such ships?

i doubt you'll find any for very good reasons - and to save the USN a great deal of embarrassment: the Zumwalts have been a disaster in terms of both design/build and project management.

in some ways its a familar story - they've not designed/built a new class of destroyers in 30 years, and everyone who was involved in designing the previous class (the Arliegh Burkes) has long since retired and so the institutional knowledge has dissapeared. as a result the ships are a bit of a mess. 32 were planned, 29 of them have been cancelled...

the 'stealthiness' is limited - as its going to be with something made with 15,000 tons of steel - but its effective enough to be worth doing. you will find them on radar, but you'll have to get a lot closer and use a lot more RF energy to do it - that makes searching for them far more resource intensive and time consuming, it means an enemy becomes a great deal more vunerable as they prepare to launch, and it may well mean that an enemy aircraft has to carry more fuel, and therefore less missiles, to find it and then reach it.

having cancelled the Zumwalt class the USN has re-opened the production line of the ship they were supposed to replace, the Arliegh Burkes. where USN ship design goes from there is anyones guess...

 

[bi0boy]

Damage to the battleship HMS King George V after collision with the HMS Punjabi on 17 MAY 1942

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Damage to the battleship HMS King George V after collision with the HMS Punjabi on 17 MAY 1942

That'll buff right out

 

[SpookyFrank]

Great Ships, shit owner:

A submarine with a swimming pool?

 

[steveo87]

A submarine with a swimming pool?

There comes a point, when you're so wealthy, that chocolate fireguard becomes financially viable.

 

[sim667]

America's Cup then and now.

Extreme Sailing Series > Americas Cup

Hydrofoils

Pitchpoling but also painful.

 

[twentythreedom]

Pitchpoled a Hobie Cat once - leeward bow dug in and flipped

 

[sim667]

I split one in two by pitchpoling it when I was about 14-15.....

I wasn't particularly popular with the holiday company to say the least.


My main aim for next spring is to get my cat back in the water, otherwise its going to get sold I think.

 

[bi0boy]

 

[StoneRoad]

I've never sailed Hobbie Cats, but there are a group that sail out of Tynemouth (a chap from one place I used to work at used to spend a lot of time there). I watched them having a "good time" one Saturday afternoon, between them and the toppers & lasers, there was usually at least one in a "non-optimum orientation". The two club safety boats were zipping about all the time, eventually towing one hobbie back to the beach for some tlc. At one point the local lifeboat crew came around - they were out training with their inflatables - to join in. No emergency, just a lot of gusty wind and an opportunity to be friendly ...

 

[sim667]

I've never sailed Hobbie Cats, but there are a group that sail out of Tynemouth (a chap from one place I used to work at used to spend a lot of time there). I watched them having a "good time" one Saturday afternoon, between them and the toppers & lasers, there was usually at least one in a "non-optimum orientation". The two club safety boats were zipping about all the time, eventually towing one hobbie back to the beach for some tlc. At one point the local lifeboat crew came around - they were out training with their inflatables - to join in. No emergency, just a lot of gusty wind and an opportunity to be friendly ...

They're great fun to sail, but can be hard to stop them rounding up...... that said there's not much like flat water, a strong steady wind, a broad reach and flying a hull.

 

[bi0boy]

 

[sim667]

I'm booked to dive on the SS Bristum a week on saturday

Sank by an air raid, she's sitting just off the South Coast, on a reef, only about 10 metres deep.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

twentythreedom's new yacht ?

 

[StoneRoad]

yeuch ! ^^^ that's one ugly "yacht" ... especially the bows on view.

someone has a lot of money to spend.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

yeuch ! ^^^ that's one ugly "yacht" ... especially the bows on view.

someone has a lot of money to spend.

Quarter of a billion pounds, so rumours have it.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Quarter of a billion pounds, so rumours have it.

Any idea whose money it is?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Any idea whose money it is?

The Russian people's, I'd imagine.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

The Russian people's, I'd imagine.

Ha, yes, good point. In whose bank account is the expropriated money currently resting, I wonder?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

His name is Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, also owns the fugly boat at the top of the page.