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  1. -Waldemar-

    Vasa 1628 engineering a ship

    . Hi Renato, I'm not sure it actually makes sense to carry out stability calculations for Vasa 1628 as it was actually built. But that is, of course, your choice. The thing is that this ship was ultimately built to proportions that are grossly inconsistent with the practices of the time, as...
  2. -Waldemar-

    French heavy frigate of 1686 designing a ship in the Dutch manner

    ...way employed in the Dutch 72-gun ship, described in the thread The Dutch 72-gun ship ca. 1690 the apogee of Dutch ship design of the Classical Age | Ships of Scale, and both of these design variants are particularly well suited to shaping the hulls of ships sporting very sharp forms. In...
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    Dutch heavy frigate ca. 1700 engineering or carpentry ‘snowman’ making?

    ...as in the project of Dutch 72-gun ship described in the thread The Dutch 72-gun ship ca. 1690 the apogee of Dutch ship design of the Classical Age | Ships of Scale: the length of the ship was determined by summing up the spacing between the gun ports, the width of the ports themselves...
  4. -Waldemar-

    French heavy frigate of 1686 designing a ship in the Dutch manner

    . Thanks a lot, folks. Peter, since it'll have to wait, you might want to make a copy of these threads something strange is going on and the dysfunction of a mysterious cause continues to beset the thread...
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    French heavy frigate of 1686 designing a ship in the Dutch manner

    ...to the design of the Dutch 72-gun ship of the late 17th and early 18th century, shown in the thread The Dutch 72-gun ship ca. 1690 the apogee of Dutch ship design of the Classical Age | Ships of Scale. A more detailed step-by-step explanation of the design sequence will follow...
  6. -Waldemar-

    Vasa 1628 engineering a ship

    ...In each case, except for just one instance, i.e. the thread The Dutch 72-gun ship ca. 1690 the apogee of Dutch ship design of the Classical Age. Here the search engine has not been able to find a single graphic, and for a quite long time. What is going on? Is there any reasonable...
  7. -Waldemar-

    Vasa 1628 engineering a ship

    ...of graphics or video in forum threads, may I ask the administrators why the internet search engine is not finding graphics from my thread "The Dutch 72-gun ship ca. 1690 the apogee of Dutch ship design of the Classical Age"? The other threads, at least so far, seem to be behaving normally. .
  8. -Waldemar-

    The Dutch 72-gun ship ca. 1690 the apogee of Dutch ship design of the Classical Age

    . It should be clarified at once that this plan, tentatively dated by me to the end of the 17th century, is one of the last of the era before the widespread adoption of design diagonals, which in the Netherlands occurred in the third decade of the 18th century at the latest (see as to this Ab...
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