You are actually comparing apples and oranges, because all ants in a colony share the same DNA and reproductive system while each whale has it's...
Actually The original point of the thread was actually to discuss how racing rules affect fashion and trends in boats not used for racing.
Dudley Dix has a good article on material selection, recommend you read through it. http://www.dixdesign.com/material.htm
Agreed, there is no logical reason to kill any animal for sport or food, we are fully capable of getting all/any nutrients and energy from plants....
Speaking of whales as if they are a single species in in my opinion quite misleading, roughly speaking there are probably around 6 million whales...
Din Islandsk er definitivt bedre enn min Norske, har du venner her eller har du studert gammel norsk?
Depends on how far you want to go I would say the design depends on what you intend to do and how much money you want to spend on it. If you...
I think a good way to discuss this is if we put it in the form of a question, given the choice of two boats, one with a plumb stern, the other...
Why don't large ships have plumb sterns? I've been thinking and I don't recall ever seeing a commercial vessel with a plumb stern so the question...
Terho/Jimbo, out of curiosity, your comments seem to be more oriented towards racing, would you say the same applies to "pure" displacement hulls?...
Thanks for you input, I'm not sure those arguments are enough to persuade me of your observation but I think your on to something. When ever I...
Hi Mike, I have not read it but I definitely will, too bad it's not available as an ebook. Thanks for the tip.
This is something that has been on my mind for a while but I thought I would ask your opinion. It's clear looking at sailboats for the last...
The tricky thing about whale meat is that if it's not correctly prepared it can smell and taste a bit like fish oil, which isn't a good thing....
Science or Religion ? If you ask a religious man to prove his religion he will tell you that your methodology is backwards, you need to assume...
Professionals have experience going for them, doing something gets easier when you've done it a couple of times before. Professionals can also...
Since we're quoting Einstein Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Do not worry about your difficulties in...
Lampy08, I don't want to argue this point with you but a simple stylometry test indicates otherwise, interestingly it also indicates a match with...
Hi Brent, I was waiting for you to post today. Jarl http://dallur.com
That's great, but I live in Iceland which is an island unlike Norway which is a part of the European continent and incidentally we have a higher...