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Re: The Canoe Myth of .pirates Unmythified
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Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:42:08 GMT
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Surely, the USS Constellation is not canoelike? Well...
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When I was at the Lego store in Anaheim just a couple of weeks ago, I looked
at the Constellation in passing and I thought it looked a bit canoe-ish
(really!).
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I’ve had a browse of www.constellation.org, and while I wouldn’t describe the
real constellation as canoeish, she does seem long, narrow, and fairly
straight sided.
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Okay...which Constellation are you refering to? And for that matter, which one
is Lego refering to? You quoted the waterline of the original, but if you
talking about the photos, those are of the second one built in 1854 (whose
proportion is 4.14:1, considerably less than the 5.6 of the Lego model).
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You are quoting the waterline length. The overall length is 204 feet for
the Constitution - and by this, they mean “head (bow) to taffrail”. Anyway,
that would make a ratio of about 4.7 to 1 as opposed to the 5.6 (the bow
would include anything but the bowsprit) for the Lego Constellation.
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You’ve lost me there... how would using a larger measurement for the length,
make the length:beam ratio smaller?
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Now you’ve confused me: It makes it larger, but that wasn’t the point, since the
other number got larger, too.
I am trying to compare apples to apples instead of apples to oranges. The point
being that you need to use the 5.6 number, not the 5.0 on the Lego Constellation
and then compare that to a similiar dimension on the real thing. The Lego model
is too long in comparison to the real thing (vis a vis width), which confirms
what I visually concluded: it has a canoe-look to it.
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) The later date explains the long/thin - though not canoeish ;-) - look. (...) I see - you didn't mention any change in the other number. (...) That may be true... but it strikes me as odd that I have not heard it remarked on before. But then, (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| (...) -snip- (...) Of course! (...) I've had a browse of www.constellation.org, and while I wouldn't describe the real constellation as canoeish, she does seem long, narrow, and fairly straight sided. (...) You've lost me there... how would using a (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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