Interesting new ship type

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[steveboston]

Has anyone else seen this?
About a week ago I caught part of a program on telly about ship design and the reason for bulbous bows and so forth. Then they showed a drawing and a short film (might have been clever CGI though) showing a Sherpa-like job with a very 'blunt' bow of unusual shape.
It looked very rounded in cross section and plan view and in cross section it tapered with height - that is it looked about the shape of a light bulb minus the top brass part (I am more flyer than sailor but I think it is called tumblehome?). Sorry I ain't got no pictures. They were saying how fuel efficient it was. Oddly enough the waterline shape was much like an aerodynamic streamline shape (round front and tapered rear) rather than the usual 'opposite' waterline standard ship shape. (Most ships at the waterline look to me like transonic aerofoils and of course also give off bow, mid and stern waves like transonic shock waves - hmmm!)

[saltydog]

Do you mean this ? I may have seen the same docu..
It's called the Ulstein X-bow..
Here the Bourbon Orca..

[Traddles]

The idea behind this shape of bow would appear to be that unlike a "normal" bow which throws the waves outwards, thus slowing down the progress of the ship, this one does not do so. The waves merely slide past the  hull without severely slowing the ship down. The rougher the sea, the better this effect operates.

Angus.

[IRI5HJ4CK]

I think I saw this too!

It had a part which explained the x-bow, etc.

Excuse me if you're talking about something else!!

[Agent|Austin]

That looks cool actually, futuristic.

[saltydog]

Check out their nice site..

http://ulsteinlab.com/

[Capt. Matt]

X Bor ships have a bow that looks like the Beak from the froot loops bird 

[steveboston]

Yep thats it - I remember the name X bow. It seems to be all wrong for a heavy sea where a traditional bow has more volume and therfore bouyancy the deeper it is plunged into the sea; must work OK though.

[laganviking]

Seemed only for supply ships etc - no ferries as of yet  though it will be interesting to see if any go into production.

[Jeff123]

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