cavelamb wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
cavelamb wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
Ed Edelenbos wrote:
"RAM³" wrote in message
m...
Sailboats are a whole 'nother world: far more limited space,
far
more
limited weight-carrying capability, a virtual absence of
electricity, and the simple fact that sailboats travel on their
sides...

If it's on it's side, it's either broken or at the hand of a
non-sailor.
As for "limited weight carrying", most of the ones I'd be
interested
in carry a big chunk of lead or iron or on a few gold platers
depleted uranium on the bottom.


Doesn't matter at all.

Dorothy's Hunter 38 displaces 16,600 pounds with 6,500 pounds of
lead
in the keel

Even that is limited displacement.

By that logic an aircraft carrier has "limited dispalcement".



Absolutely!

And every time they up-anchor, they go on water rations.

The water supply on a warship is not limited by displacement, it is
limited by the capacity of the main condenser.

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