confort à la mer
English translation: seakeeping
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| 10:17 May 15, 2009 |
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| 4 +2 | seekeeping |
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| 4 | comfortable sailing |
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| 4 | comfort at sea |
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| 4 | stability |
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| seagoing comfort |
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| Naval Architecture, Tupper, E. Ed. Butterworth Heinemann. ISBN : 0-7506-2529-5 |
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comfortable sailing Explanation: I think you are right |
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peer agreement (net): +2seekeeping Explanation: Seakeeping performance criteria: the established limits for the ship's responses. These are based on the ship motions and the accelerations experienced, and include COMFORT criteria such as noise, vibration and sea sickness, performance based values such as involuntary speed reduction, and observable phenomena such as bow immersion. _ Wiki -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 12 mins (2009-05-15 10:30:19 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- SEAKEEPING, of course!! |
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| Reference: seagoing comfort Reference information: We all want high performance with comfort and low cost. Since the three cannot be combined in one vessel, priorities must be established and compromises made. Seagoing comfort can be very different from what is comfortable in a marina. Too often comfort is defined merely as interior volume. I prefer to consider three factors: (1) easy motion in a seaway, (2) peace of mind, and (3) interior volume. Who can be comfortable with the environment and stomach jumping around while concerned about stability, slamming, or worse? http://www.dicknewick.com/About.html |
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3 hrs peer agreement (net): +1 |
| Reference: Naval Architecture, Tupper, E. Ed. Butterworth Heinemann. ISBN : 0-7506-2529-5 Reference information: Features of seaworthiness and seakeeping abilities are of course inextricably linked. Here’s what Eric Tupper has to say on the matter. Intro to Chapter 5, 'Seakeeping'. “In their broadest sense the terms seakeeping and seaworthiness cover all those features of a vessel which influence it sability to remain at sea in all conditions, for which it has been designed, and carry out its intended mission. They should therefore, embrace stability, strength, manoeuvrability and endurance as well as the motions of the ship and related phenomena. In this chapter, only those aspects of performance directly attributable to the action of the waves are considered. …” Elements discussed in the chapter on seakeeping : SEAKEEPING QUALITIES SHIP MOTIONS MOTIONS IN REGULAR WAVES MOTIONS IN IRREGULAR SEAS ENERGY SPECTRA LIMITING FACTORS IN SEAKEEPING OVERALL SEAKEEPING PERFORMANCE SHIP FORM AND SEAKEEPING PERFORMANCE STABILIZATION -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 hrs (2009-05-15 18:35:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Don't overlook the fact that "confort" here is not being meant solely in terms of not wanting to throw up, not being slung from side to side, it is also - and probably essentially, in view of the technical nature elsewhere of this document - referring to the way the vessel handles underway. I would instinctively prefer seakeeping in such circumstances were it my text. |
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