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Strange looking catamaran
Anyone know the purpose of this boat?
http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat1.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat2.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat3.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat4.jpg -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com |
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Strange looking catamaran
Glenn Ashmore wrote:
Anyone know the purpose of this boat? http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat1.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat2.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat3.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat4.jpg Some sort of research. This thing was around Pt Angeles and Sequim Washington for a while this summer. The crew wouldn't talk much about it. Gordon |
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Strange looking catamaran
Gordon wrote: Glenn Ashmore wrote: Anyone know the purpose of this boat? http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat1.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat2.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat3.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat4.jpg It is a research vessel, investigating the swath concept in a catamaran. It looks stealthy, but I guess if you got the bux, you can afford a style, if you want it. I thought I heard that it broke easly, but was to be reinforced Terry K |
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Strange looking catamaran
Glenn Ashmore wrote: Anyone know the purpose of this boat? http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat1.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat2.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat3.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat4.jpg -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com Interesting. No source of propulsion? Towed? |
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Strange looking catamaran
Wm Watt wrote:
Glenn Ashmore wrote: Anyone know the purpose of this boat? http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat1.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat2.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat3.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat4.jpg -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com Interesting. No source of propulsion? Towed? Engines on end of each pontoon. g |
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Strange looking catamaran
Glenn Ashmore wrote:
Anyone know the purpose of this boat? http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat1.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat2.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat3.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat4.jpg Just a guess but it might make a good arctic/antarctic winter research vessel. It's wide so it wont capsize easily and the main area is out of the water making easier to climate control and also see over large waves and swells. It could also be a rescue ship going over the top of a damaged boat and pulling victims straight up reducing the danger in jumping into the water to be retrieved by a helicopter. -- Message posted via BoatKB.com http://www.boatkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/build/200612/1 |
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Strange looking catamaran
My thoughts:
- Overall design may be to go fast and do so without shaking the occupants too badly (see shock absorbing connections to pontoon), but in many respects numerous surfaces of craft are not optimized for speed. - Overall design seems to indicate that the craft was designed for a short operating life - Would believe its being used for research, would disagree that it's being used for SWATCH research --- twin hulls are not submerged in pictures, and seem unlikely to be designed to operate submerged full time. - High center of gravity will lend itself to low stability, not ideal for rough seas. - Front Cockpit makes you wonder if this is for site seeing, except why not windows in the back. scbafreak via BoatKB.com wrote: Glenn Ashmore wrote: Anyone know the purpose of this boat? http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat1.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat2.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat3.jpg http://priceless420.com/Pr121206funkyboat4.jpg Just a guess but it might make a good arctic/antarctic winter research vessel. It's wide so it wont capsize easily and the main area is out of the water making easier to climate control and also see over large waves and swells. It could also be a rescue ship going over the top of a damaged boat and pulling victims straight up reducing the danger in jumping into the water to be retrieved by a helicopter. -- Message posted via BoatKB.com http://www.boatkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/build/200612/1 |
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Strange looking catamaran
Anyone know the purpose of this boat? There's only one reason for a boat like that...... Hollywood |
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Strange looking catamaran
--Aha! Now *that* makes sense! :-)
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