Vindskip: interesting ship design

[southkogs]

Ran across something interesting today and thought I'd drop it on the group to bat around. Ship design is something I get an interest in watching (though I really don't understand most of the engineering). VINDSKIP is a new one that's kinda' cool from an efficiency standpoint. Hull is crazy lookin'.

Both the LNG system and the air foil concept are very intriguing. But I'm dying to know what kinda' draft it pulls comparative to similar size conventional boats.

 

[GA_Boater]

Using the hull shape as what amounts to a sail an interesting concept. But I wonder how the "sail" is reefed in strong winds?

 

[gm280]

I can see the new bass boats designs now... :facepalm: :faint2:

 

[Bondo]

Ayuh,.... Considerin' the world has moved to containerized shippin',....

I don't really see that hull workin' out so well,....

CNG is possibly a thing of the future though,....

 

[southkogs]

Using the hull shape as what amounts to a sail an interesting concept. But I wonder how the "sail" is reefed in strong winds?

That was one of my thoughts too. Kinda' why I wondered what it looked like under the water ... othewise, the center of gravity looks WAY high to me.

I was wondering about containers too Bondo. But the concept images seem to focus on boats other than Container Ships. The route they showed on the video was Japan to Chile, so I was wonderin' if they hauled lotsa' autos on that route.