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Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 21:42:10 No.2061055 View View Reply Original Report

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How big can sail boats get? Is there an upper limit?

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 01:59:43 No.2061079 Report

Quoted By: >>2061119

Requesting that old pasta about the guy who goes on a sailing trip with his dad and they get becalmed by a disaster near Australia and they just take turns ambushing and raping each other as they slowly lose their minds and it's really awkward after they get rescued

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 09:33:49 No.2061119 Report

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>>2061079
Fuck off, degenerate faggot

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 12:49:29 No.2061137 Report

Quoted By: >>2061265

>>2061055
The tea clippers have been dethroned, at least in terms of gross tonnage. See the neoliner roro. Interestingly similar top speed and sail area to the clippers.
https://www.neoline.eu/en/

I actually can't wait for the next age of sail, but there are a lot of other cargo ship layouts and sizes that need proofs of concept.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 15:37:21 No.2061144 Report

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>>2061119
Perfectly on topic request, maybe you were looking for this thread >>2043922

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Anonymous Sun 14 Dec 2025 16:26:47 No.2061148 Report

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>>2061055
iirc old timey masts were limited by the height of the trees used to make them, which was why clippers came about so late as they used tall new-world trees from old growth forests which supplied superlative timber compared to European trees.
Now though they can make masts out of carbon fiber so Im guessing the limit depends on the depth and weight of the keel

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 03:38:07 No.2061256 Report

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>>2061148
>iirc old timey masts were limited by the height of the trees used to make them
Stepped multi-sectioned masts are a 16th century technology, emerging from the Dutch and their flyut trade fleet.

High speed vessels like clippers weren't feasible prior to the 19th century because of the lack of copper sheeting that would allow for draggy weed and animal growth on the ship hull that would negate most benefits of a slick high speed hull shortly after starting a voyagle cleanly scrubbed and maintained in port.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Dec 2025 04:54:22 No.2061265 Report

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>>2061137
>neoliner roro
absolutely disgusting, i'll take a container ship instead

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Anonymous Wed 17 Dec 2025 19:37:16 No.2061485 Report

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>>2061055
Earths curvature will eventually limit size.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 03:17:03 No.2061513 Report

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>>2061265
Why? Do you like rusty containers?

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 12:41:37 No.2061525 Report

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>>2061513
A rusty container has better lines and proportions than that disgusting abomination.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 15:02:41 No.2061531 Report

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>>2061525
Really? Sound fairly unreasonable.
Roro aka roll on roll off designs seem much cleaner to look at than the 20th century's giant barges with their crumbling iron boxes. Anyway the boxes are bad for aerodynamics.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 15:38:01 No.2061533 Report

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>>2061531
roro is literally the same barge with two ugly disproportioned masts slapped onto it, like a mockery of both sailboats and container ships in their utilitarian pragmatism.

just looking at it makes me want to vomit.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 15:39:46 No.2061534 Report

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>>2061485
just make the ship curved too, problem solved.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Dec 2025 18:44:45 No.2061545 Report

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>>2061256
>Stepped multi-sectioned masts are a 16th century technology, emerging from the Dutch and their flyut trade fleet.
Yeah but arent segmented masts more susceptible to a "tyranny of the rocket" problem in that the taller the mast the more of its own weight it needs to support and a contiguous piece of timber thus has a greater strength to weight ratio?

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Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 04:12:34 No.2061567 Report

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>>2061533
You should vomit, I wish that for you. What I imagine your taste is like should be realised.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 05:22:18 No.2061569 Report

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>>2061055.

If the Earth is a flat one or that even if the Earth is round, and that the ship is built on space, then there's no upper limit. One thing is for sure in a spherical shape world, there's a limit if when built in a globe earth, a sensible normal, and the right scientifial limit.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 07:58:31 No.2061574 Report

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>>2061545
That's what the stays and shrouds are for - to support that weight.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 07:59:43 No.2061575 Report

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>>2061567
You will never be a woman and will always remain a disgusting abomination much like your floating piece of turd will never be a real sailboat and will always remain an ugly perversion of all natural and beautiful.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Dec 2025 22:01:21 No.2061608 Report

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>>2061574
Fair enough, I guess the information I absorbed via cultural osmosis was incorrect.
Though for the sake of OPs question the tallest mast we could build now would have to be made of carbon fiber or some kind of exotic alloy

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 06:00:21 No.2061627 Report

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>>2061608
>Though for the sake of OPs question the tallest mast we could build now would have to be made of carbon fiber or some kind of exotic alloy
Probably but it'd be well beyond any practical need for a ship you could think of.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 17:40:13 No.2061644 Report

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>>2061545
Clippers were greatly overcanvased for their size but overall they weren't very large vessels, so compared to ships of the line or large oceanic cargo haulers they'd sport a fairly modest sail rig. There wasn't a problem making the masts and rigging for those giants so porting a smaller version of that to an even smaller high speed hull isn't much of an engineering challenge.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Dec 2025 18:53:37 No.2061650 Report

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>>2061627
>Probably but it'd be well beyond any practical need for a ship you could think of.
Very true, and youd eventually run into some kind of ceiling (or basement) with respect to keel depth such that this hypothetical vessel would be unable to operate in most ports or canal locks

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Anonymous Sun 21 Dec 2025 20:53:47 No.2061717 Report

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>>2061608
Kites. You can anchor them to the hull rather than trying to transfer force through the mast, and takes advantage of the higher wind speeds further up away from the surface.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2025 00:44:33 No.2061721 Report

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>>2061717
What about using a windmill to generate electricity that can be used to propel the ship?
Probably not as efficient as using the wind strictly as a means of physical propulsion but it does allow you to sail directly upwind/otherwise eliminate the need to tack

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2025 12:18:17 No.2061735 Report

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>>2061717
Silly because of the fact that sails work like aerofoils rather than chutes. Because of this, sails can travel windward.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Dec 2025 01:50:40 No.2061925 Report

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>>2061055
>Is there an upper limit?
Relative to how big boats get at all? Not really (above a certain size, finding ports big enough gets hard). But you'd probably want to use modern materials and configurations.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Dec 2025 06:50:17 No.2062043 Report

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>>2061721
What about rotors? There are several ships which use them. Can those sail upwind?

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Anonymous Sun 28 Dec 2025 17:12:45 No.2062063 Report

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>>2062043
iirc Flettener Rotors work best when sailing upwind but need to be powered, so are more for providing modest fuel savings rather than 100% of the propulsive power like youd get with a more conventional sailing rig

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Anonymous Sun 28 Dec 2025 19:55:46 No.2062072 Report

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>>2061055
The problem with sailing ships is that you can't stack containers on the deck. They would have to be xbox-huge to offset that drawback. Technically, it's not that big of a deal, but practically it will cause some issues. Upper limit is dictated by the layout of harbors, bridges, etc.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Dec 2025 21:30:23 No.2062081 Report

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>>2061485
the Earth is only holding the future of sail back

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Anonymous Thu 08 Jan 2026 22:21:09 No.2062890 Report

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>>2061485
That’s a huge bitch

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Anonymous Wed 21 Jan 2026 05:57:50 No.2063866 Report

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>>2061717
>Kite
I was talking to chatgpt and came to this conclusion as well. Big giant airfoil sails and a fleet of them all autonomously controlled with flaps

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Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 06:36:16 No.2064304 Report

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