Theres a couple of the things around.Used for shipping your yacht about following the seasons, winter in the Carribean, then the Med in time for Monaco GP type thing. They can take the yacht crews at the same time for maintenance, sort of a travelling drydock.Yo dawg, I heard you like boats so I put some boats in your boat so you can sail while you sail.
That high bow looks awfully like a tug. My best guess is a North American tug converted for private use. It's not got a rear deck big enough to contain enough punters for day trips, I think.Back to the OP, I've no idea what it is, but the large cabin with big windows and the 'prominade deck' around the wheelhouse suggests it might be a dolphin spotting or day fishing boat. Definitely for sightseers rather than a working boat.
Where is it?
Theres a couple of the things around.Used for shipping your yacht about following the seasons, winter in the Carribean, then the Med in time for Monaco GP type thing. They can take the yacht crews at the same time for maintenance, sort of a travelling drydock.
It's the big windows and promenade that make me think it's for punters.That high bow looks awfully like a tug. My best guess is a North American tug converted for private use. It's not got a rear deck big enough to contain enough punters for day trips, I think.
Edit: Actually, she looks too long in the water to have been a tug. All that curvy topside stuff looks US though.
Good point!It's the big windows and promenade that make me think it's for punters.
State of the art sailing vessel - I think the sails must live inside the mast and be automatically furled out when necessary.WTF is that first monstrosity. Looks like you could capsize it with a gentle push!
State of the art sailing vessel - I think the sails must live inside the mast and be automatically furled out when necessary.
It's an interesting concept:
Think of the energy savings if that could be applied to cargo ships rather than just toys for the filthy rich...
Possibly - it might depend on what speed you are willing to settle for. But a container ship would be much longer than the Maltese Falcon so they could have more, shorter masts.Looks a lot more stable in sail mode! I don't know anything about boats, but would that not be really difficult to implement on a cargo ship? I'm thinking about the container style ones specifically; would the masts not have to be stupidly high to propel the thing?
Neither do I - but if applied to cargo ships they could be.I don't imagine those sails are for financial reasons.
Possibly - it might depend on what speed you are willing to settle for. But a container ship would be much longer than the Maltese Falcon so they could have more, shorter masts.
I'm sure I've seen modern sail concepts proposed for cargo ships - but in an industry where profit is the bottom line, taking a risk on innovative propulsion methods is not very likely to happen.
Think they'd have problems with their cargo when tacking.......State of the art sailing vessel - I think the sails must live inside the mast and be automatically furled out when necessary.
It's an interesting concept:
Think of the energy savings if that could be applied to cargo ships rather than just toys for the filthy rich...