• @Soyweiser
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    Wait, they replaced the two masts with one double sized one? That seems a bit unwise.

    Most of the time, though, the Bayesian operated like a motorboat, powered by two enormous diesel engines. During her five-day voyage, Ms. VanSickle said they sailed only once, for just a few hours. But when they did, the boat moved through the water so smoothly, she said, it felt like they were “gliding.”

    Yes that is how sailing often feels if the water isnt choppy.

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      Mr. Costantino said the design was not at fault and that the towering mast, which stood 237 feet tall, had not created “any kind of problem.”

      “The ship was an unsinkable ship,” he said. “I say it, I repeat it.”

      - Designer of sunken ship

      • @bitofhope
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        162 months ago

        Never ever board a ship if someone calls her unsinkable.

      • @froztbyte
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        192 months ago

        “no no you don’t get it, you’re floating it wrong”

    • FRANK.MCCONNEL
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      82 months ago

      @Soyweiser To be fair that change request was made by the original purchaser of the yacht, long before it was re-christened Bayesian by its new owner

      • @Soyweiser
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        72 months ago

        I know, still a strange choice, a Dutchman should know better.