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Sunday, July 18. 2021

Beowulf is one heck of a sailboat

Just two people (not young either), sailing her (how can a her be a Beofwulf?). Lots of good tech, with lots of redundancy.




Posted by The News Junkie at 12:57 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Awesome boat. Thanks for posting the video.
..."how can a her be a Beofwulf?" She identifies as a male boat.
#1 Stargazer on 2021-07-18 13:31 (Reply)
I never intended to watch the entire video, but I did. It was awesome. Thanks for posting.
#2 snopercod on 2021-07-18 15:50 (Reply)
Beowulf reminds me a lot of a craft that colleague built - same kind of design, and the same focused purpose-driven, experience-informed layouts. It was registered with Lloyd's. His was only 20m in length (slightly smaller), but it had a full compact machine shop in the forward machine spaces, and a decompression chamber (treasure diver) just in case. It was a remarkable vessel and they sailed all over the world.

Here is the Dashew's farewell to boat-building
https://setsail.com/evaluating-new-designs-in-a-post-fpb-market-2/
#3 Aggie on 2021-07-18 16:10 (Reply)
What does FPB stand for, if you know?
#3.1 snopercod on 2021-07-18 19:24 (Reply)
From the comments at Aggie's link... 'fpb'... f**king power boat.

That website... like I need more time sucking interests, and I don't even sail. So much of interest though.
#4 XRay on 2021-07-18 20:20 (Reply)
LOL! Thanks!
#4.1 snopercod on 2021-07-19 07:30 (Reply)

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