[HN Gopher] Ulstein X-BOW inverted bow ___________________________________________________________________ Ulstein X-BOW inverted bow Author : jen729w Score : 15 points Date : 2022-06-04 22:10 UTC (50 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (ulstein.com) (TXT) w3m dump (ulstein.com) | robonerd wrote: | It's a sort of tumblehome bow, similar designs were popular in | the past. For instance this late 19th century French battleship: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Jaur%C3%A9gu... | | No doubt computer simulation / etc have let them optimize this | shape more than in the past, but it's not wholly unprecedented. | throw0101a wrote: | Seems that the 'generic name' for this concept is "inverted bow": | | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_bow | tleilaxu wrote: | I've seen some of these bows on seismic survey ships out the | window where I live. | | I assumed the funky bow shape was due to them being ice | breakers/science ships, but looking the ships back up they're | indeed examples of these X-BOW ships. | | I wonder what the downsides are? The site does the classic thing | of listing the advantages but not the opposite. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-04 23:00 UTC)