Some boats in the pipeline

[Sybarite]

Richard Branson is planning a 220' submarine which looks almost like a normal yacht when on the surface. It has what looks like a 15' approx diametre window to the main saloon. It will be capable of diving to 300m. No worry about hurricanes then.

Ed Dubois is working on a 100m sloop (NB Mirabella V = 75.2m) with a 125m mast (410' : Mirabella V = 90m). Performance is enhanced by 42' draft centreboard.

Dream Symphonies (4 master) is under construction in Turkey. It is 141m (460') long. Maltese Falcon is 88m (289').

Under construction in China, a 43m (141') motor trimaran which can cruise 4000 nm at 17 knts with a top speed of 25knts.

A 90m super yacht called Beluga with a hull in the form of a whale and where all the superstructure is glass.

Réf : "Bateaux"

 

[Poignard]

Vanity of vanities; all is vanity

Richard Branson is planning a 220' submarine which looks almost like a normal yacht when on the surface. It has what looks like a 15' approx diametre window to the main saloon. It will be capable of diving to 300m.

Will he sit there like Captain Nemo, playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue on a full-size pipe organ?

 

[mjcoon]

Richard Branson is planning a 220' submarine which looks almost like a normal yacht when on the surface. It has what looks like a 15' approx diametre window to the main saloon. It will be capable of diving to 300m. No worry about hurricanes then.

But that must be some window! Excess pressure (IIRC) is one bar per 10 metres, so that would be 30 bar or 30x14=420 psi in old money...

On the other hand if the inside is to be pressurised then there will be constraints on decompression of the passengers & crew.

Mike.