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I’m surprised we haven’t seen catamaran aircraft carriers.
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Carriers need lots of internal volume for storing planes, so that offsets any drawbacks of a big, wide hull
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True, but deck space wasn't the consideration (it was built to take advantage of the stability, and never carried that many passengers), and the twin hulls meant the powerplant was limited in size so it couldn't compete with faster monohulls.
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The biggest tell though is that if the paddlesteamer catamaran had been a fantastic idea they'd have built loads of them - the Victorians weren't shy about copying success - and they didn't. It's a very different beast to modern high speed cats.
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clearly an unfamiliar, unworkable, and failed design conceptpic.twitter.com/IrzMbI1CdR
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Cats are fun/awful to sail.
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Just pointed a camera out of my home office window…




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I once asked a naval architect I worked with why we hadn't seen a serious design for a catamaran or trimaran aircraft carrier. Triton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Triton ) had been widely expected to lead to something of that sort but apparently trimarans are very displacement sensitive.
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What does it mean for a watercraft to be displacement sensitive, and why is that bad?
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