It’s Peiper’s Fault

 

1. Hmmm… two points, and only a wee scattering of fact to support them:

   1) Not just wooden ships hog and sag. I have personally looked down one of the passageways that ran the length of USS Saratoga (CV-60) just under the flight deck and watched it corkscrew over the length of the ship in heavy seas.

   Even for steel ships, if they don’t “work”, they break.

   2) While I understand how Cutty Sark mounted in a glass dock is creepy in the same way stuffing and mounting Trigger was creepy, nonetheless you really only have 3 options: Take her to sea often enough for working in the waves to keep her in proper shape, take her more and put her on intense life support as they’re suggesting doing (so she gets the support she would in water without the damage), or let her die. Dragging her out of the water to rebuild her every few years just makes her age faster, makes her “squat on her keel” that much sooner.

   Posted by GrumpyOldFart       03/11/2010  at  06:48 PM  



2. ’scuse me, “take her *home* and put her on intense life support...”

   Posted by GrumpyOldFart       03/11/2010  at  06:49 PM  



3. Absolutely, steel ships will sag and hog too. But a well made, double hulled, double bottom steel ship is something like 60 times stronger than a wood ship of equal size. Aside from Noah’s Ark, wood ships were rather size limited for that very reason. The big ones broke in half. And the Ark had a distinct advantage in that it was very lightly loaded; a bunch of animals and some hay weighs so much less than a cargo full of rocks. Plus it didn’t actually sail or even steer. It just floated.

   I have no idea how to design against corkscrewing. Diagonals across the bottom and across the lower and middle decks?

   Posted by Drew458       03/11/2010  at  09:34 PM  



4. I am going to start a pool. The bet is when the brain of Drew or I ( proper english grammer)will explode trying to hold all this arcane knowledge we keep loading up on via the internet.If Christopher or Peiper wish to be added to the pool just speak up.
   I will leave it up to Drew to name the stakes,assuming he doesnt explode first.

   Posted by Rich K       03/12/2010  at  02:25 AM  



5. I haven’t felt close to overload yet. The internet can be a fantastic learning tool. But for those of us, like the Elephant’s Child, with “‘satiable curiosity”, it can also be an addiction.

   Posted by Drew458       03/12/2010  at  09:48 AM  



6. A very good read Drew many thanks.

   Posted by LyndonB       03/12/2010  at  01:19 PM  

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