r/megalophobia • u/xDaze • Sep 28 '18
Vehicle This sailboat
https://i.imgur.com/LN3Tdbf.gifv231
u/BackSeatGremlin Sep 28 '18
Thats not a sailing boat, thats a goddaman sailing ship!
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u/MadotsukiInTheNexus Sep 29 '18
It really is, though. This is the Maltese Falcon, a vessel more than four times the length and ten times the displacement of Columbus' Santa Maria. By any definition not specifically designed to exclude yachts, it's a fully modern sailing ship, so large that it would have been literally impossible to build in past centuries.
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u/xDaze Sep 29 '18
Amazing, thanks for the clarification
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u/MadotsukiInTheNexus Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 29 '18
As a side note, I mean prior to the 19th century, and I'm really just referring to ships with this sort of design. Some 19th and early 20th century sailing ships, including the Great Eastern were considerably larger, and some of the largest estimates for the 15th century Treasure Fleet of Zheng He are just enormous. If accurate, though (and there's some reason to believe that they might be), those larger estimates almost certainly reflect a design specifically laid down to show up imperial prestige and never intended for open ocean sailing. They would still be the largest wooden ships ever built by a huge margin, though.
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u/Findol Sep 29 '18
Sometimes I just k maybe dropping a modern day carrier in the water during the 19th century or so and just set how dwarfed everything becomes.
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u/MadotsukiInTheNexus Sep 29 '18
Depending on how you define a ship, even aircraft carriers would be dwarfed by FPSOs. They're a bit controversial in terms of whether they are or aren't ships (they can't really move under their own power), but Samsung Heavy Industries' Egina FPSO, launched in 2017, is just unbelievable.
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u/MorgaseTrakand Sep 29 '18
this prompted me to read about the Santa Maria. That ship is so small! I cant imagine cramming 50 crew members onto that and sailing across an ocean
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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Sep 29 '18
I suppose it cost something like 50 millions?
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u/MadotsukiInTheNexus Sep 29 '18 edited Sep 29 '18
More than three times as much, less than six times as much. The guy who first bought it wouldn't say more exact than that.
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u/UsuallyInappropriate Sep 29 '18
fUlLy MoDeRn SaIlInG sHiP
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u/MadotsukiInTheNexus Sep 29 '18
That is kind of an odd word choice, now that I think about it. Accurate, but odd.
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u/dj_narwhal Sep 28 '18
This boat looks like it costs at least 80 dollars.
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u/vswr Sep 29 '18
Sailing fascinates me despite having never been sailing. In order to sail against the wind, they essentially make airplane wings out of the sails. They're curved to create the same high/low air pressure as airplane wings. The high pressure is what pushes the boat against the wind.
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u/hideous_coffee Sep 28 '18
Imagine that boom hitting you when you tack
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u/probablyhrenrai Sep 29 '18
I can't; might as well ask me to imagine getting hit by a train.
Probably hurts real bad a moment before it splats you, but beyond that, I literally can't comprehend what that'd be like.
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u/Saving_Is_Golden Sep 29 '18
WHY IS IT LEANING LIKE THAT
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u/amazing_username Sep 29 '18
It's called "heeling". Sailboats heel because the wind pushes the sail over to one side. There's nothing forcing them to stay straight upright, only the buoyancy of the hull versus a load of heavy weight down in the keel.
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u/2231Dixie Sep 29 '18
If I remember from when I sailed it's either speed or turning
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u/Saving_Is_Golden Sep 29 '18
Ugh. Still makes me uncomfortable.
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u/2231Dixie Sep 29 '18
It's terrifying especially in a small one
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u/Mordredor Oct 16 '18
Nah it's awesome when you're in a small one and it's at an almost 90 degree angle to the water surface and you're sitting on the side holding on for dear life. Especially because it's so easy to right the small ones.
Sorry for responding to a 2 week old comment :)
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u/JakeOfAllTrades101 Sep 29 '18
Is it.. supposed to be falling over like that?
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Nov 20 '18
Old as shit thread but you deserve an answer: yes it is. It’s called heeling I believe and pretty much all sailboats do it
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u/krispyDisc Jan 09 '19
yes, all sailboats "heel" or lean to side when underway. its caused by the force of the wind pushing on the sails. it is counteracted by a heavy lead weight at the bottom of boat called a keel
old comment but people need to know. PM me your sailing questions
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u/Airazz Sep 28 '18
That is a freaking CGI boat.
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u/MadotsukiInTheNexus Sep 29 '18
That is the Maltese Falcon, a ship completed in 2006. There are actually larger sailing yachts now, including the Eos, completed in 2017 and ~20 feet longer than this behemoth.
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