144,000 horsepower

[Robatoy]

Especially is shallow waters...LOL

[Robatoy]

You can jury-rig some wing-type baffles to help ride up on the wave, but the adverse effect is that IF you dig in, you're looking at your own butt.

[Lew Hodgett]

------------------------ Sounds about right.

Lew

[J. Clarke]

Speaking of sail, the thing that amazes me is the speeds that are being sustained under sail. At the rate things are going it won't be long before United States' transatlantic record falls to a sailing yacht--last August Banque Populaire 5 came within about 9 hours of beating it. 32 knots under sail, all the way across. I remember when Crossbow first managed to struggle over 30 knots on a short measured course and now that's being bettered for thousands of miles at a stretch, and here's what a big boat going fast looks like today . Same boat flipped at SIXTY-ONE KNOTS.

[krw]

[Larry Jaques]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:21:37 -0800 (PST), the infamous Robatoy scrawled the following:

or what?

Here's mine. (Dad was an Air Force pilot; this isn't him.)

"power of nature" shots I love:

trees live on

lightning (no "e", guys)

Niagra frozen 1911 (pre-AGWK)

we left Anchorage 10 years before the quake

And last but not least, 100 stunning pics everyone should see. There are some real doozies here:

is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. --Ronald Reagan

[krw]

Think skid (notice the bubbles off the bow). The swell is his.

[Lee Michaels]

wrote

has huge numbers of cute animal pictures.

My wife is a big fan of both nature and snimal pictures. This stuff will get sent out through a vast network of folks who apprciate this sort of thing.

[Robatoy]

Just a hard turn at good speed. here's another one:

the spookiest picture ever...

[Larry Blanchard]

[Larry Jaques]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:31:43 -0600, the infamous " [e-mail]" scrawled the following:

Wull, ya just don't "whip a U-ey" in a boat which takes a mile and a half to stop or turn.

Yeah, me, too, but this was the first and best I've seen.

-- There is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. --Ronald Reagan

[Larry Jaques]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:10:15 -0500, the infamous "Lee Michaels" scrawled the following:

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! ;)

Did you know: that a baby giraffe is born over 6' off the ground and its mother dumps it on its head at birth? She can't squat so the baby has a very hard time starting out in the world.

-- There is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. --Ronald Reagan

[Larry Jaques]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:03:10 -0800 (PST), the infamous Robatoy scrawled the following:

Carrier? Go to your quarters without dinner!"

Post a copy of THAT on your front window on Halloween night and watch the candy giveaway count go way down!

OK, enough computer for one night. I'm off to bed to get back to Stephen Hunter's _Black Light_ sniper mystery.

-- There is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. --Ronald Reagan

[Lew Hodgett]

me of my college days living in a boarding house.

Saturday nights down in the basement watching TV.

"Have Gun Will Travel" and the Navy submarine show hosted by a retired Rear Admiral were fravorites.

Used footage of WWII subs and the lead into the show was the standard pice of film showing the sub surfacing at about a 45 degree angle.

I'm sure that little trick cost the captain the rest of his career unless it was done on orders.

Never cared to find out.

Lew

[Larry Jaques]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:49:02 -0800, the infamous "Lew Hodgett" scrawled the following:

No doubt it was an authorized film of the emergency surfacing techniques, Lew. I loved those old sub flicks, too.

-- There is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. --Ronald Reagan

[Robatoy]

Always that drowning bunch behind the watertight door, the leaky/ squirting pipe, the sweat, the pings, the mad skipper..... if you seen Das Boot, you've seen all the sub movies. IMHO.

I DO like sub warfare simulation games. Going back to Silent Service on a Commodore 64. Primitive, but fun. Then Wolfpack on a Mac... I now call those games 'time-sinks'.

[Morris Dovey]

Just wondering...

If I reworked a Hoby as a jet boat, how much power do you guess it might take to push it along at, say, 5 and 10 mph?

I might be about to set my beer aside and try something goofy...

[Robatoy]

fluidyne here, eh?

[Morris Dovey]

Yup - fluidyne water jet. I've been doing a lot of re-design and it appears that I can boost both the efficiency and the oscillation rate to the limits of mechanical check valves.

With a platform like the Hoby, I think I can mount a tracking solar concentrator and have 3-4 kW of input power to work with and (perhaps)

50% of that in pump power.

My problem is that I'm not sure that'd be enough to pull a twin-hull platform.

Heh - it just occurred to me that if I needed a horn, I could disconnect the pump and use the engine (at say, 1kHz@1.5kW} to warn off the jet skiers. :)

[Robatoy]

despise the Great Unwashed who seem to see the need to get drunk and destroy the very expensive peace and quiet one pays for on the shores of otherwise untainted inland lakes.