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Old 08-23-2006, 07:29 PM   #1
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Is it the lollipop guild? or the lullabye league?
That's a 110 foot boat.
This 110 foot boat carries a crew of 17.
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Old 08-23-2006, 05:51 PM   #2
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Now he just needs a BIG fucking bottle to put it in.
No, he needs a 1/8th scale chamagne bottle to christen it!

Any pictures of that miner guy in which he isn't covered in soot? If the idea was to let us know what he looks like, it isn't working
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Old 08-23-2006, 06:02 PM   #3
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33, 50 m de long
4, 75 m de large
6, 60 m de haut (avec cheminée)
4, 60 m de haut (sans cheminée)
97 tonnes
That's heavy!

I wonder what it's made of?
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Old 08-23-2006, 06:20 PM   #4
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That's heavy!
(Clicking away on the calculator...) So the draft is 60 cm.

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I wonder what it's made of?
Why, the stuff of dreams.
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Old 08-24-2006, 12:34 PM   #5
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Why, the stuff of dreams.
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Old 08-23-2006, 07:57 PM   #6
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Damn.... and I have a problem vaccum cleaning the carpet. My cover's off to this dude.
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Old 08-23-2006, 08:05 PM   #7
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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.
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Old 08-24-2006, 06:17 AM   #8
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Brings to mind that line from Field of Dreams, "If you build it, they will come."
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Old 08-24-2006, 04:50 PM   #9
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Weight: 90 tons in fresh water and 96 tons in salt water.
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?
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Old 08-24-2006, 06:01 PM   #10
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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?
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Old 08-24-2006, 06:26 PM   #11
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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.
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Old 08-24-2006, 06:11 PM   #12
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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.
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Old 08-24-2006, 07:05 PM   #13
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It must be that when they take it on the ocean, the sea anchors they have to take along weigh an extra 6 tons.
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Old 08-24-2006, 07:06 PM   #14
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Maybe it's not the weight of the ship itself, but the amount of weight it can carry.
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Old 08-25-2006, 04:13 AM   #15
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From the English link;
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His model, if one may still call it so, has become a real masterpiece whose structure weighs 70 tons, out of a total weight of 90 tons.
It also mentions;
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You've got to think about how to pass under bridges or into tunnels.
The boat is too tall to pass under the bridge. What can you do to lower the boat ?
Easy for François : the radar mast, the funnel and the guardrail of the sun-deck are removable and there is a second hold you can fill with water.
The boat is now 22 tons heavier and thus, lower.
But that may just confuse the issue.
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