(Clicking away on the calculator...) So the draft is 60 cm.

Why, the stuff of dreams.

That's a 110 foot boat.
This 110 foot boat carries a crew of 17. :cool:

Damn.... and I have a problem vaccum cleaning the carpet. My cover's off to this dude.

Length: 33.5 m = 110 feet
Width: 4.75 m = 15.5 feet
Headroom: 3.5 m = 11.5 feet
Draught: 1.06 m = 3.5 feet
Weight: 90 tons in fresh water and 96 tons in salt water.
Two 100 hp engines
Two 38 kw stem propellers
160 m² living space = 1722 sq/ft
60 m² upper deck = 646 sq/ft

And the bottle of Champagne to Christen it.;)

Brings to mind that line from Field of Dreams, "If you build it, they will come."

:thumb: This may be nuts, but its a very good kind of nuts. :thumb:

Um...am I to understand from the specs above ("living space") that this is *not* a functional scale model, but one which is actually intended to be operated as an inhabited recreational vessel?

I think that's correct. It looks pretty nice inside too. This thing rocks!

It is pretty darn cool. Hell, I'd be proud if I could build a rowboat, let along a 110' motor vessel.

:p

I'm sure I missed physics that day, but...how the hell does something have a different weight depending on what the composition of the water is? A different buoyancy I can understand, but weight?

Possible that those numbers are in fact the displacement?

Watching this man on TV : it's fantastic to realise how a crazy and personal dream can merge so many people around him. (Like Forrest Gump).

His neighborhood isn't even spiteful after years of din. :)

But the Displacement is the actual total weight of the ship.
If the density of the water varies,(warm, cold, fresh, salt) what changes is how far the ship settles into the water. But, the weight of the water displaced will always equal the weight of the ship.

Because Archimedes wouldn't lie to us, his oldest and dearest friends, I've no idea what they meant by the two weight figures. :confused:

It must be that when they take it on the ocean, the sea anchors they have to take along weigh an extra 6 tons.