CheeseWellDone wrote:
dmpawley wrote:
CheeseWellDone wrote:
dmpawley wrote:
Oh, sorry.
My title doesn't describe what I really do ( all around IT guy ), Information Systems Architect.
What I would love to do is design / build wooden ships.
Full scale, 1/2 scale or in a bottle?
Yesterday's ships (with landlubbers and scallywaggs) or today's (with satellite/laser/nuclear technology)?
just curious...
I was thinking tall ships. Not that they would be practical, but just a lot of fun to design and build.
Would probably be a bundle to test market but there might be a market to those with disposable income and a love for the water to create scaled down but sailable tall ship kits?
Unfortunately, there are a lot of the characteristics of traditional tall ships that are not directly scalable.
A clipper ship directly scaled down to recreational boat size would be lying on its side in the water with the first 10-knot puff of breeze.
You might get close to managing it with a schooner by increasing the beam and the ballast proportionately.