Terje Lade's "Wind Ship"

as said by others,, the design is bollocks

there are some websites that deal with new ferries and containter ships. The trend seems to be to add streamlining to the superstructure. Yes it adds a little in capital costs, but with oil sustaining at 100 US dollars a barrell, fuel costs are more of an issue. The other trend is the axe bow, and the reverse bow, but with lots of freeboard forward.

In containernships.. as per the above thumbnail, they are now starting to put the bridge forward. Yes there is more movement there, however the visibility is much better. With the bridge aft, it becomes very very difficult to actually see where your going.

The other trend is to replace oil powered deisels with LNG diesels. Lower fuel costs. Other changes, modifying the propellers so that they are optimised for lower transit speeds, becomes more profitable to travel a few knots slower, but use much less fuel

 

heres the crew


the crew

 

At last, a sensible sport.

 

It looks like any other modern cruise ship. without windows and decks.

I think it is another twist on 'green' propulsion to make a lot of money off of gullible people.

 

In case if no one noticed from the pdf - the ship is actually a trimaran.
Not sure how this ship will maneuver in harbours on a windy day.
And what about heeling if wind comes from the side?

 

My first question when I saw this boat was why won't it bow over, and my second question was how will this thing dock? If I was a harbormaster there is no way I would let this thing in my port.

 

I think other than a vehicle carrier such design could be used for a wood chip carrier.

 

No its not

 

With two hundred feet depth and a million ton ballast, it must be doable. It take only 20 days for the last car to get out. They said they the drivers have a MacDonald pee and food stop. Mostly pee due to the low wages the crew earn.
They find on one of these vessel a Toyota with a skeleton on the driver seat. The poor guy missed the ramp to the exit.

 

It is.

And since it's a trimaran + of such design, I'm bothered about seeing something like this: http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1573099

 

You had better identify the source of the info then - are you getting confused with his comments about future plans ?

Its obvious that rendering is not a trimaran to me.,

 

If it is a trimaran, it is a very badly designed trimaran.

 

if you read Robert Clifford's biography (founder of Incat), he says that trimarans dont make as good high speed ferries as cats do. His arguement was that they are suspectible to inbalance, example, a 50 tonne truck drives from one side of the cargo bay to the other.

The other arguement was that ferries work at different levels of displacemnet, such as not much cargo, full or cargo. Thus at low weights the outriggers may barely touch, but when you add hundreds of tonnes of cars and trucks, the outriggers dig in and create a lot of drap. Military trimamarans tend to avoid these issues, thus they have a role to play there. Alternatively a pure passenger ferry (no vehichles) might work well as a tri.

Either way, the design,,, is a piece of junk

 

It's from pdf I included in the very first post - it does look like a trimaran to me.

In either way I agree with the last part of the above comment.

 

How do you execute abandon ship procedure? By parachute?