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Planking - New Method for me

Come to think of it, some years ago, a fellow with more ambition than experience decided to build a sailing ship he called Raw Faith, so named in defiance of those who told him his inexperienced DIY approach to ship building was courting disaster and to affirm that his raw faith in God would trump the sciences of naval architecture and marine engineering. She was planked with what appeared to be a double layer of recycled pallet planks, (just like the ship model kits that claim to be built "just like real ships!") which produced a hull not looking much different than many kit models posted online these days.

Raw Faith lasted for about seven years, during which time she left the dock a handful of times. After twice having been rescued and taken under tow by the USCG, her third "mayday call" proved to be her last when she sank in 6,000 feet of water off Nantucket Island following the USCG rescuing her crew with no loss of life.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RawFaith for the whole sordid story of Raw Faith.

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Very interesting story indeed.
I would love to be able to see and hear what a Marine Archeologist would have to say about this ship some 500-600 years into the future!
I would imagine it would spark all sorts of discussion as to what this ship was and its overall design and build - especially if there isn't any surviving data on the ship.
It definitely would be a real head scratcher for them and a lot of debate.
 
I doubt that will be the most dumb-founding relic of our society future archeologists will puzzle over.

But your comment conjures a memory of a book I read years ago called Motel of Mysteries. Not sure if anyone is familiar with that one. It came out around the same time as the world was still going bonkers over King Tut’s tomb and was a tongue-in-cheek illustrated account of the excavation of a “shrine” uncovered along the former route 66 by some future archeologist and his attempts to explain its many mysteries.
 
Hey,

I don't know what there is. I just don't understand why, as in Germany, a government agency has to inspect the ship in order for it to be authorised for shipping. Thank God no one died and no wheelchair user died either. After all, the man wanted to get people with disabilities on board. I think the motivation is great, but the naive construction method and the lack of understanding of physics, architecture and nature are incomprehensible to me. It reminds me of the Vasa, which was supposed to be the strongest ship in the world.... Yes, yes, yes ...

Cheers
Günther Ship-1
 
Namabiiru said:
But your comment conjures a memory of a book I read years ago called Motel of Mysteries. Not sure if anyone is familiar with that one. It came out around the same time as the world was still going bonkers over King Tut’s tomb and was a tongue-in-cheek illustrated account of the excavation of a “shrine” uncovered along the former route 66 by some future archeologist and his attempts to explain its many mysteries.
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I love the Motel of the Mysteries! I have a copy somewhere in my library. I thought the same as you when I read the above posts. I'll have to search my shelves for it. It's worth a re-read.
 
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