chezdeluxe
Doctor of Teleocity
And it was made in the Australian state of Tasmania.
The fastest ship in the world.
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Frank'n'censed
Doctor of Teleocity
That's a hull of a dreadnaught!
Pisgah
Tele-Meister
Faster than Miss Budweiser?
Danjabellza
Friend of Leo's
Vessel Vs ship. That's like comparing the fastest motorcycle to the fastest bus. A 380mph motorcycle is way faster than a 180mph bus, but that doesn't make the 180mph bus less impressive.Not to steal your thunder chez, but Ken Warby's Spirit of Australia still holds the title of fastest vessel in the world at 317.5 mph.
I had Bali belly once......
Oh, Ship.... oops sorry...
Oh, Ship.... oops sorry...
Frank'n'censed
Doctor of Teleocity
Things are startin' to heat up, nicely!
Is this a shill post for fast boats?
It worked. I want one!
It worked. I want one!
Frank'n'censed
Doctor of Teleocity
Is this a shill post for fast boats?
It worked. I want one!
Shill be comin' 'round the _______ when she comes...
I've ridden it. I got to scream across the Bay of Fundy on an Incat. We were assured that we hit 50-55 mph at times when crossing. It was the full blown stateroom and casino model from what I recall.
All I know is that I spent most of the trip at the lower stern rail watching the beautiful rooster tails! Amazing ship...I think there were four 9,000 horse power engines driving the pumps. Just a real once in a lifetime experience!
BartS
Friend of Leo's
Here is what I don't understand. I see stuff like this on tv in Australia, The UK, Sweden, Norway, I'm not exactly sure maybe Iceland. Pretty much a lot of places that aern't the United States of America. You got big catamarans, Hovercraft?????, Just any type of awkward ferry. Why even have them? If it's a bay or one of the great lakes we just drive around. To us there would be nothing on the other side of that bay worth getting out of our cars being subject to what ever checks. Getting boated for god sakes to the other side of the bay. Most likely being checked again. Getting back in our cars just to have to turn around and do it again. I looked it up they do have ferrys at the great lakes but I am pretty sure is like a going back in time cruise thing. They aern't making more of them. They have recently retired ones with paddle wheels and they still run on coal because if they built new ones they wouldn't be profitable. I think people get dressed up like it's the 30s or forties and have cocktails.
If that many people want to get across something we build a bridge or a tunnel. It wouldn't matter how far it was. It's just not that important to us. We don't like ferry cars from the tip of Florida to Mississippi. It's not that much longer to drive around. Which brings me to the chunnel which for the life of me I can't figure out. You build some engineering nightmare and instead of using it like anyone with half a brain would and letting people drive through. You ferry cars and shipping on a train that goes only goes 231/2 miles. You literally take things off what ever way they were shipped to one side of the chunnel then put them back on on the other. For 23/12 miles. You do the same with cars.
I know there was all types of over thought engineering safety polices going into the chunnel. Well what if there is an accident or cars catch fire. This seems to happen even if you load them on the train. It's not like the speed limit would be over thirty five miles an hour. There tends to be a lot less accidents when there is absolutely no turn offs or stops signs and people are traveling at the rates they would be traveling in there. Even if there was problems we in The Americas invented something called a tow truck. You can look this up we literally have towing vehicles from Alaska to the southern tip of Mexico. I didn't think this was a North American thing but I am starting to wonder. If you have ever been towed it's probably a less invasive thing that getting of a ferry or going through the chunnel. As far as venting with all the money that when into that thing figure it out or you could of built a bridge. It's probably fine as is. [political content removed] Between us and Canada it's pretty much the same thing. If it's a route people travel a lot I think they have fast passes where you don't even get stopped. Figure it this way people in cuba take a freaking raft if they want to come into this country. I mean these things are barely rafts by the definition. More like floating piles of junk. So using trains instead of cars is going to do little to nothing except for the 1500 or so lazy people that camped out on the tip of France. On our boarders we have pregnant women less lazy than that they would be standing around saying I'm going to make a swim for it before my water breaks.
As far as gas mileage goes if there isn't enough capacity needed to build a bigger boat and by bigger I mean like aircraft carrier we normally don't build it unless it's just a pleasure boating experience and we leave our cars in the parking lot and when you scale it up to that size and put in diesel engines the economy tends to go up by leaps and bounds. Don't get me wrong the catamaran was a great feet of engineering when the Polynesians came up with it thousands of years ago and when I was 10 years old looking in the back of comic books those hovercraft looked really neato. It's just the niche of places you would actually use one of these things is kind of a made up niche that doesn't really exist. Except people in some countries have made stuff up just to do it. Trust me if Papua New Guinea ever becomes a nice enough place to where you would ferry people there. Which most likely isn't going to happen in the next 200 years. By then you would just fly.
If that many people want to get across something we build a bridge or a tunnel. It wouldn't matter how far it was. It's just not that important to us. We don't like ferry cars from the tip of Florida to Mississippi. It's not that much longer to drive around. Which brings me to the chunnel which for the life of me I can't figure out. You build some engineering nightmare and instead of using it like anyone with half a brain would and letting people drive through. You ferry cars and shipping on a train that goes only goes 231/2 miles. You literally take things off what ever way they were shipped to one side of the chunnel then put them back on on the other. For 23/12 miles. You do the same with cars.
I know there was all types of over thought engineering safety polices going into the chunnel. Well what if there is an accident or cars catch fire. This seems to happen even if you load them on the train. It's not like the speed limit would be over thirty five miles an hour. There tends to be a lot less accidents when there is absolutely no turn offs or stops signs and people are traveling at the rates they would be traveling in there. Even if there was problems we in The Americas invented something called a tow truck. You can look this up we literally have towing vehicles from Alaska to the southern tip of Mexico. I didn't think this was a North American thing but I am starting to wonder. If you have ever been towed it's probably a less invasive thing that getting of a ferry or going through the chunnel. As far as venting with all the money that when into that thing figure it out or you could of built a bridge. It's probably fine as is. [political content removed] Between us and Canada it's pretty much the same thing. If it's a route people travel a lot I think they have fast passes where you don't even get stopped. Figure it this way people in cuba take a freaking raft if they want to come into this country. I mean these things are barely rafts by the definition. More like floating piles of junk. So using trains instead of cars is going to do little to nothing except for the 1500 or so lazy people that camped out on the tip of France. On our boarders we have pregnant women less lazy than that they would be standing around saying I'm going to make a swim for it before my water breaks.
As far as gas mileage goes if there isn't enough capacity needed to build a bigger boat and by bigger I mean like aircraft carrier we normally don't build it unless it's just a pleasure boating experience and we leave our cars in the parking lot and when you scale it up to that size and put in diesel engines the economy tends to go up by leaps and bounds. Don't get me wrong the catamaran was a great feet of engineering when the Polynesians came up with it thousands of years ago and when I was 10 years old looking in the back of comic books those hovercraft looked really neato. It's just the niche of places you would actually use one of these things is kind of a made up niche that doesn't really exist. Except people in some countries have made stuff up just to do it. Trust me if Papua New Guinea ever becomes a nice enough place to where you would ferry people there. Which most likely isn't going to happen in the next 200 years. By then you would just fly.
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neckradius
Tele-Holic
The Millenium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.
Bristlehound
Friend of Leo's
...which makes no sense as a parsec is a unit of distance, not time! (3.086 × 10E13 km)
I have a question about those Incats though. It would seem they could only operate in fairly still water in protected bays or channels. I can't imagine one could handle rough seas and certainly not at 50 knots plus.
maxvintage
Poster Extraordinaire
Awesome work by our Australian friends. Bravo!!
I now nothing, nothing, about ships and navigation. Will it work well on rougher water? NYC needs some of those for the staten island ferry
I understand from the video it won a blue ribband. Is that some kind of australian thing?
I now nothing, nothing, about ships and navigation. Will it work well on rougher water? NYC needs some of those for the staten island ferry
I understand from the video it won a blue ribband. Is that some kind of australian thing?
No Faster Ship than the Victory Ship out of Atlanta!
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