Mono Hulled Fish

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All Jimi's fishy posts have got me wondering as to why it is that fish are always mono hulled and not twin hulled (fishymarans?).

S'pose same applies when considering ducks and similar that do the swimming bit - have never seen a duckamaran. There are catamarans, of course, but cats don't fancy the water thing.

Has nature got it wrong?

John
 
I had always thought that most paddling birds are equivelent to twin enginged trimarans, or at least twin engined cathederal hulls with the thighs overlapping the breast. The former giving great efficiency at displacement speeds with manoevrerbility so nature hasn't done badly!
 
Ah well, there *used* to be loads of duckamarans but of course they got scoffed! - They eventually flipped over, couldn't get back upright and got eaten by seagulls. However, their massive speed meant they could cross the atlantic frinstance in a few days and zoom up rivers for a weekend shag no problem at all. Monhulled descendants like salmon for example are lumbered with the same darned trip but it takes months.
 
Acshully the Duckaram was converted over 1 hundred years ago to the telegram .. which was literally as fast as light .. and thats why you can't see them ... another offshoot was in the fruit industry where Banarama became so fast they slowed them down in stages by lashing them to musical instruments and fings ..
 
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God was not a Naval Architect. Otherwise he would never have designed the octopus.... and fish don't have to float and go up and down with the waves. If they did they would have two hulls not one. This simple fact was ignored by early boatbuilders who made hulls to look like fish because they thought God could not be wrong.... And the silly sods have been doing it ever since only now they screw large lumps of iron and lead to the bottom to stop them falling over. Will they never learn?
 
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And the silly sods have been doing it ever since only now they screw large lumps of iron and lead to the bottom to stop them falling over. Will they never learn?

[/ QUOTE ]How much easier to bolt a float on the top of the mast. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
Hi Mike,

Think you might be on the right track. God is just Woofy spelt backwards and he got confused. He meant to call catamarans woofymarans and monohulls catamarans.

Also explains another quandry for me, that is why ShipsWoofy sails a catamaran (actually a woofymaran) and Ships_Cat sails a monohull (actually a catamaran). Think I am confusing myself now, no wonder god stuffed it up with the fish /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

While on the subject of cats I was also wondering if Nic ever got in contact?

John
 
To follow your conclusions through to the bitter end, with plenty of weak links and rubbish arguments, long story short....

I sail a beautiful sleek cat

and you sail a bit of a dog /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Which bit of a dog are you referring to - head, legs, tail, body or, er, ummmm, whoops, I see, ahhh, I better retract that question.

Anyway, I think Mike can attest to the fact that I love catamarans, well at least for the ones with big engines in them /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

John
 
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