Why is everything getting bigger and bigger.

[emmalina]

only thing for me getting bigger is my belly

 

[capnsensible]

My coracle was the best. You could go out with the other hunter gatherers, run down a bison, scoop out the insides, stretch the skin over a few bent branches and hey presto, a boat. And in the evening you could all gather round the fire in a cave and argue (in a never-anything-but-fascinating way) over which is better, these new-fangled skin stretched over bent sticks things, or just clinging on to an inflated animal gut like in the good old days.

You were lucky.

 

[Mark-1]

baggywrinkle,
You mean like this?

I've never sailed a trimaran but I can't believe letting the lee hull dig in like that is good for speed. Momentarily easing the sheets or luffing up a little with the gusts seems better.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I've never sailed a trimaran but I can't believe letting the lee hull dig in like that is good for speed. Momentarily easing the sheets or luffing up a little with the gusts seems better.

That probably is pressing a bit harder than is perfect for speed. It’s not me, I don’t have a picture of my own boat flat out, it gets a little busy. But max speed in a Dragonfly is shortly before the main hull leaves the water, they have sufficient float volume to do that, about 200% of displacement. That means that it should only be half submerged. In practice, in waves that means it varies between 10% and 90% submerged.

 

[capnsensible]

OMG it's got a window in the Hull!!

 

[Chiara’s slave]

OMG it's got a window in the Hull!!

Even worse by implication. It’s an escape hatch, for when you’ve proper overcooked it.

 

[capnsensible]

Even worse by implication. It’s an escape hatch, for when you’ve proper overcooked it.

Catamarans get one in each hull. It's thoughtful of designers who put them in the heads to not put the heads in same place in each hull.....

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Catamarans get one in each hull. It's thoughtful of designers who put them in the heads to not put the heads in same place in each hull.....

I suppose needs must, but entering a room with an upside down bog in it is desperate last resorts

 

[oldmanofthehills]

My waist line increase, my brain shrinks. My income increases, the calls on my money increase at same rate due to disabilies.

I dont need much bigger boat, as family comes first so wont be buying a giant cruiser. Our LM will do

Continual expansion not needed for planet or its inhabitants

 

[Kelpie]

Just goes to prove, you need more than 1 boat

Depends if you want to do this ....

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... or this ...

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Definitely.
We have a moderately complicated (but not large by modern standards) yacht, and when I want to unwind from whatever I've been trying to fix or upgrade, I jump in the dinghy. It's a plywood tender with a loose footed windsurf rig on it. I love it. It just works. Half an hour doing laps of the anchorage usually sets me right to get back to work again with a clear head. It's the perfect antidote to a yacht chock full of complicated systems.

 

[mjcoon]

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Strangely most commercial aircraft are getting smaller after the demise of the 747 and Airbus 380.

I remember specifically choosing a route so I got to fly on a 747 when they were new. And even got upgraded to 1st class on that one flight, possibly because I was rather scruffy. But I didn't know 380s have gone before I got to fly on one. And airports had to reconfigure to fit them in, too!

 

[mjcoon]

My coracle was the best. You could go out with the other hunter gatherers, run down a bison, scoop out the insides, stretch the skin over a few bent branches and hey presto, a boat. And in the evening you could all gather round the fire in a cave and argue (in a never-anything-but-fascinating way) over which is better, these new-fangled skin stretched over bent sticks things, or just clinging on to an inflated animal gut like in the good old days.

Was that a self-inflating gut? ;-)

 

[RunAgroundHard]

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I think D might be more appropriate than M.

 

[Mark-1]

My coracle was the best. You could go out with the other hunter gatherers, run down a bison, scoop out the insides, stretch the skin over a few bent branches and hey presto, a boat. And in the evening you could all gather round the fire in a cave and argue (in a never-anything-but-fascinating way) over which is better, these new-fangled skin stretched over bent sticks things, or just clinging on to an inflated animal gut like in the good old days.

....and everyone agreed the best Anchor for a Coracle was a rock on a length of vine, you had to paddle backwards slowly to set it, obvs.

 

[capnsensible]

I remember specifically choosing a route so I got to fly on a 747 when they were new. And even got upgraded to 1st class on that one flight, possibly because I was rather scruffy. But I didn't know 380s have gone before I got to fly on one. And airports had to reconfigure to fit them in, too!

Plenty of 380s working. Try Emirates. Its Brill for passengers.

 

[johnalison]

....and everyone agreed the best Anchor for a Coracle was a rock on a length of vine, you had to paddle backwards slowly to set it, obvs.

A club associate went on a coracle-making workshop about 15 years ago. I think he made a coracle in one day but I have not heard that he put it to use. I see that there are a number of such courses still going, though I think I'll give them a miss. I don't really like getting wet.

 

[Mark-1]

A club associate went on a coracle-making workshop about 15 years ago. I think he made a coracle in one day but I have not heard that he put it to use. I see that there are a number of such courses still going, though I think I'll give them a miss. I don't really like getting wet.

In the early 1990s a friend made one and I had a go on it. I really enjoyed it. It was tiny but pretty stable. Mind you I was more agile then.

However it wasn't zero maintenance, everything on it could rot or tear. Now, a coracle made out of HDPE...

 

[Kelpie]

Plenty of 380s working. Try Emirates. Its Brill for passengers.

They're no longer in production but plenty still in use.
Seems like Airbus gambled on the hub+spoke model but point-to-point won out.

Interestingly, the lowest fuel consumption per passenger is currently the Airbus A220, which is not at all large.

 

[capnsensible]

They're no longer in production but plenty still in use.
Seems like Airbus gambled on the hub+spoke model but point-to-point won out.

Interestingly, the lowest fuel consumption per passenger is currently the Airbus A220, which is not at all large.

I read this morning that the final assembly line for them has been repurposed and has just produced their first narrowbody for which their order book is bulging.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

They're no longer in production but plenty still in use.
Seems like Airbus gambled on the hub+spoke model but point-to-point won out.

Interestingly, the lowest fuel consumption per passenger is currently the Airbus A220, which is not at all large.

It wasn't the hub model, as hubs are significant transit points for long haul flights that involve a final destination outside the hub e.g. It was too expensive to run, too many seats to fill, too high a cost to upgrade or refurbish and worst of all a significant customer, Emirates, that sucked up orders to the detriment of other airlines trying to order. Well reported that the thing was just too expensive, low return, reduced profit margin.