Posted by Stephen! on July 20, 2011, 7:00 pm
> http://buylovely.com/files/funzug/imgs/funnypics/If_iwas_rich_05.jpg
Not thanks... I lived three years on a carrier. Imagine how many people
you would have to employ to keep the thing running.
You'd never really be alone unless you were isolated in your cabin.
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Posted by Datesfat Chicks on July 20, 2011, 8:36 pm
>On 7/20/2011 3:00 PM, Stephen! wrote:
>> Not thanks... I lived three years on a carrier. Imagine how many people
>> you would have to employ to keep the thing running.
>>
>> You'd never really be alone unless you were isolated in your cabin.
>I wouldn't need a big crew, just some masts and sails. So I could
>chase the sun back and forth across the Equator; it would always
>be summer.
I don't know much about the fluid dynamics, but I suspect a carrier is
a bit harder to move through the water than a sailboat. I suspect
with the biggest sails you could sanely erect, you might get the thing
moving about 2 knots.
DFC
Posted by Stephen! on July 20, 2011, 8:39 pm
@newsfe01.iad:
> I wouldn't need a big crew, just some masts and sails.
90,000 tons of displacement with masts and sails? Really?
> chase the sun back and forth across the Equator; it would always
> be summer.
I lived an eight year summer (four on Guam followed by four on Oahu.)
It was the most boring thing I have ever endured. The only thing that
kept me sane was my bike, my planes, and my SCUBA gear. I gotta have a
change of season.
> A garden for veggies; some pigs and chickens roaming the deck, and
> fish of course. Wind turbines and solar panels for electric power.
The pigs and chickens would get blown away by the wind if you didn't
tie them to padeyes. As for wind turbines and solar panels, you got two
nuclear reactors below decks and you want turbines and panels?
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Posted by Stephen! on July 21, 2011, 1:36 am
> That's just a bit shy of the 90k tons the carrier weighs, so I might
> not get even the 2-knots that Dates figgers.
Heh... Indeed. :) BTW, I was off a little myself. The USS Stennis
(*MY* boat, I'm looking at my framed Plank Owner certificate right now) has
actually 97,000 tons displacement.
> Ok, well, scrub the sail idea. I don't want the nuclear power plant
> either, though, so they can hoist that out. The wind turbines
> and solar panels could charge batteries to run an electric motor
Ahhh... So you want a train engine. Yah... It would likely take
several banks of locomotive engines to move that boat. The screws alone
(there are *FOUR*) weigh 66,200 lbs each.
On the bright side, it can make 400,000 gallons of fresh water a day and
its AC plant has a 2,900 ton capacity. So even your eternal summer can be
made quite comfortable with plenty of fresh ice. Even if you can't
actually move it anywhere.
> (there's probably no mounting bracket for an outboard).
Funny enough, there is. I watched many a F-14 and F-18 engines running
at full afterburner on the test bay bolted to the fantail.
>> The pigs and chickens would get blown away by the wind if you didn't
>> tie them to padeyes.
>
> But pigs and chickens don't get blown off small islands in Polynesia
> (do they?) Anyway, if the weather gets too bad they can take shelter
> below.
Not many 4-acre island on Polynesia. Besides, they have trees and hills
to block the wind. The wind across the flight deck of a carrier can get
quite ferocious.
> Also, I don't need the house on deck shown in the picture; I can set up
> living quarters on the bridge.
You'll need somewhere to let the people driving it work. I'd suggest
living in the Captain's At-Sea cabin. It's right near the bridge.
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Posted by Stephen! on July 20, 2011, 11:53 pm
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> Hehe, you had your own cabin[1], damn officers.
>
> [1] Spoken as an officer's dependent.
My 'cabin' just happened to be the smallest berthing compartment on the
ship. (Something to do with be amongst the most senior 1st Class PO's in
the Pre-Com unit.) As such I shared it with only 20 other guys and had my
pick of racks. Mine was top rack, right below the AC vent.
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