Back to the Future - Maritime Design

[kach22i]

Check this out, many catagories - have fun.

Link:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_eve...tics/maritime/

I like the nuclear eel submarine (train hauler), the Roller-Boat, and of course the flying boats (wing in ground effect).

[Bergalia]

Errrr no Kach22i - I think you'll find this is one of the earlier designs for the Australian built Collins Submarine - they are still trying to get the Mark II version to sink.....

[kach22i]

It's a great retro site, check out the whole thing.

[Jeff]

Very nice site! Thanks!

[greg simpson]

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_eve...ritime/11.html

check this out,and they say scientists are intelligent?!?!?

[boltonprofiles]

Hello cach22i,

Great fun retro site which I found strangely thought provoking, so thanks for that.

Paul.

[SailDesign]

Originally Posted by greg simpson

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_eve...ritime/11.html

check this out,and they say scientists are intelligent?!?!?

The Flettner rotor ship was and is a fairly good way to get around (although dead upwind could be a bit painful) I can't remember what the efficiency was like, but they DID make an Atlantic crossing in 1930-something
Cousteau "re-invented" the idea with "Alcyone", using what he called TurboSails.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by greg simpson

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_eve...ritime/11.html

check this out,and they say scientists are intelligent?!?!?

A link from that link:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/news_eve...e/slosson.html

The Flettner rotor is the first application to the practical affairs of a scientific law, discovered by Magnus seventy-five years ago and neglected ever since, except as baseball pitchers employed the principle unconsciously to give a curve to the ball. This principle is simply that a rotating sphere or cylinder in the wind receives a pressure that shoves it sidewise as well as in the direction of the wind.

Glad you all liked the site.