Sam,
You usually post garbage but that last sentence is true. Will try it out on Lake Erie and if it works as intended - good (although whether you call it faith or something else, I believe it will be more seaworthy than at least 90% of the boats at a marina, wouldnt be doing this if my thoughs were otherwise), if not, it will be limited to more benign waters and uses.
WHAT!?!? GARBAGE?!?! I am truly shocked and deeply offended, I think I'll go eat worms.
Looking at your construction photo....what's up with only one screw per plank? You must have a lot of Faith in Glue. I don't know how many times I've heard that old saying about the glue being stronger than the wood because there are wood fibers still stuck to the broken side of the glue line, but it seems odd that the break always happens right next to the glue line. I imagine you're using epoxy and relying on its supposed 'gap filling' qualities, because one screw per plank isn't going to pull the planking close enough for a proper glue joint. You're not using Gorilla Glue, are you?
You talk about
flat bottom boats need long length to minimize areas of large concentrated waterplanes, lenghth spreads that out.
and
Secondly, for long boats with Vee and rounded sections they are notorious for rolling, so hope to reduce it with the flat bottom,
. Along with the blurb about the wind vane on the Ark always keeping it pointed into the waves, I think you imagine you will always take waves straight on. If you do that, your design has no longitudinal strength, and if you bridge waves your boat will buckle in the middle as have numerous ships at sea. If you get sideways, in the trough of the waves, you'll wish you had a rounded bottom, as your flat bottom and straight sides will have no choice but to follow the tilt of everything, it won't be able to roll a little and stay upright on the face of a wave. But wishing and praying won't help you at all as you get slammed from one side of the boat to the other, coated in puke.
What makes you think adding stuff between the frames on the inside of the boat will give you longitudinal or any other type of strength?
If you keep posting your religious BS, your thread will probably be closed down by the MODERATOR. It doesn't matter to me if it is, but if you want to keep posting that banal tripe, that's fine with me.
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The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called "faith." What man, who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God? And yet, our entire system of religion is based upon that belief. The Jews pacified Jehovah with the blood of animals, and according to the Christian system, the blood of Jesus softened the heart of God a little, and rendered possible the salvation of a fortunate few. It is hard to conceive how the human mind can give assent to such terrible ideas, or how any sane man can read the Bible and still believe in the doctrine of inspiration.
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The Gods
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“Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god’s infinite love.”
― Bill Hicks
“Reason is the Devil’s greatest *****; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious *****; she is a prostitute, the Devil’s appointed *****; ***** eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom… Throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism… She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, to the closets.”
—Martin Luther,
Works, Erlangen Edition v. 16, pp. 142-148.
“Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but—more frequently than not—struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”
—Martin Luther, Table Talks in 1569.
