Wes wrote: All the negative rake on the turn of the last century battleships was because the bows were actually rams. The designers in those days weren't all that confident about gunfire against armor, and designed the potential for a ramming battle into the ships. Me: Do you know if this was ever tested??? It's hard to imagine riveted construction holding tight after being used to ram. Hope they included some monster pumps in the design! Just to pick nits, I noticed a couple of months ago that on the QCC "How long.." page, the Mariner Coaster was somewhat farther down the list than I expected to find a boat which is the first that comes to my mind when "short overhangs" are mentioned. The table lists it at 91%, while calculating from the figures on the Mariner web site gives 94%. Perhaps if *Cam* Broze was reading this list, this would have been mentioned earlier ;-) Mike Wagenbach *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 17:21:52 PDT
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