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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Dreadnought Holiday

    this works very well it's a catamaran it offers far more deck space for a given amount of frontal area / resistance People build tons of them even todayhttps://twitter.com/TheDreadShips/status/1502376895140270095 …

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    A Dicey Catamaran, and by golly it is. It's two hulls lashed together with iron ribs and then a salon built on top in a manner that suggests the people responsible for top and bottom were working at ninety degrees to each other. There are two hulls, four funnels, and no commercial success whatsoever.
    Dreadnought Holiday @TheDreadShips
    The great thing about Victorian engineering is that nobody had yet discovered what didn't work... pic.twitter.com/Drgl18hk4k
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      1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

        ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Joni Pelham  ✈️  🚀

        2/https://twitter.com/jonititan/status/1502413179149819906 …

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        Joni Pelham  ✈️  🚀 @jonititan
        Replying to @MorlockP
        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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      2. Isegoria‏ @Isegoria Mar 11
        Replying to @MorlockP

        I’m surprised we haven’t seen catamaran aircraft carriers.

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      3. Kevin in Utah‏ @kevin_in_utah Mar 11
        Replying to @Isegoria @MorlockP

        Carriers need lots of internal volume for storing planes, so that offsets any drawbacks of a big, wide hull

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      2. Dreadnought Holiday‏ @TheDreadShips Mar 11
        Replying to @MorlockP

        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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      3. Dreadnought Holiday‏ @TheDreadShips Mar 11
        Replying to @TheDreadShips @MorlockP

        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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      2. random_scrub‏ @random_scrub Mar 11
        Replying to @MorlockP

        clearly an unfamiliar, unworkable, and failed design conceptpic.twitter.com/IrzMbI1CdR

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      3. Ogre  🌻  🦬‏ @ActiveOgre Mar 11
        Replying to @random_scrub @MorlockP

        Cats are fun/awful to sail.

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      1. José Camões Silva‏ @josecamoessilva Mar 11
        Replying to @MorlockP

        Just pointed a camera out of my home office window… 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓pic.twitter.com/crCs51Xuof

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      2. Joni Pelham  ✈️  🚀‏ @jonititan Mar 11
        Replying to @MorlockP

        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.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. axiomatic axolotl  🍅 🍞 🛒 📈 💵‏ @Kimmellionaire Mar 11
        Replying to @jonititan @MorlockP

        What does it mean for a watercraft to be displacement sensitive, and why is that bad?

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