[HN Gopher] Ulstein X-BOW inverted bow
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       Ulstein X-BOW inverted bow
        
       Author : jen729w
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-06-04 22:10 UTC (50 minutes ago)
        
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       | robonerd wrote:
       | It's a sort of tumblehome bow, similar designs were popular in
       | the past. For instance this late 19th century French battleship:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Jaur%C3%A9gu...
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       | No doubt computer simulation / etc have let them optimize this
       | shape more than in the past, but it's not wholly unprecedented.
        
       | throw0101a wrote:
       | Seems that the 'generic name' for this concept is "inverted bow":
       | 
       | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_bow
        
       | tleilaxu wrote:
       | I've seen some of these bows on seismic survey ships out the
       | window where I live.
       | 
       | I assumed the funky bow shape was due to them being ice
       | breakers/science ships, but looking the ships back up they're
       | indeed examples of these X-BOW ships.
       | 
       | I wonder what the downsides are? The site does the classic thing
       | of listing the advantages but not the opposite.
        
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