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Model boat with numerous sails. Anyone know what's going on here? Recreation of a fictional boat?
https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...many_sails.jpg
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...893#post137387
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...620#post136373
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...768#post102413
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...209#post126407
A sale on sails?
I think it must be fictional...
The largest sail ship extant today has only five masts and about forty sails...
https://twistedsifter.com/2016/06/ro...-sailing-ship/
Maneuvering a full-size ship with that much sail would be a nightmare and would probably take too long to be satisfactorily responsive to weather changes.
Now the question becomes: Why would anyone build such a model?
Based on the original poster's comments, this model was commissioned by someone with 400 employees, with a sail for each one. They say that the model was of the Amerigo Vespucci (this one, I think), though it was embellished accordingly to support that many sails.
Edit: The boat has its own Wikipedia page.
Double Edit: Here's a shortened url to the original post, as the profanity filter killed the first link. Note that the reddit comments are of the usual quality (poor) -- only one of them is from the original poster, and it's buried fairly far down.
Looks like it was designed by a frustrated sailor fresh out of turbine school.
Any way the wind blows, this ship is in trouble...
If it was a real ship, I’d hate to be the poor bastard that has to set all of them.
When the sun is over the Yard Arm it's time to Splice the Main Brace.
Does it have all those sails to compensate for the tiny propeller?
"original poster's comments" URL is a dead end. Please correct; I'd like to read it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JTG
The profanity filter is filtering it out. Here it is, but you have to replace the asterisk in the url.Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting...its_400_sails/
Thanks for that, Jon.
Reading the comments was a waste of time unless one wants to learn just how stupid people are. That said, there was one comment that made me chuckle...
We're gonna need a bigger bottle.
That's social media for you. Cool stuff does appear there, and there are also funny things to read, but the signal-to-noise ratio is unbearable.
Being a model, doesn't make it a miniature of an actual vessel.
As every bit of a sailing ship's rigging is named, not numbered, would not that be a task in and of itself?
Since when is there a $#~?<#*&!(* profanity filter? Son of a `:=&&$#()@!