How can you not love her? The things I would do to her......... :drool:
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1328719646

Added both of you guys, I searched for the server and couldnt find it.
look for Cave [MT]

Bremerhaven, Germany as seen from deck 12 midship:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1328739153


The dangers of designing needlessly complex plumbing:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1328738898

(I believe the designer of this used to work for Porsche.)


The reason I'm here:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1328738898



More random photos:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1328738898

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1328738898


You can see part of the water-coaster in this one:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1328738898

Should read: 'dangers of using too many pipe supports.'

What's the lifeboat say?

Ducky Dip?

Plumbing has been a nightmare on this ship.

A month ago, while still in Papenburg, they accidentally pressurized an open water line inside the ship and flooded 48 cabins, to the tune of around €1m in damage (and considerable delay.)

The picture above is just a small part of a ridiculously complex system of plumbing that no doubt gave some solidworks designer multiple orgasms as he was drawing it, and yet serves the simple purpose of pumping water from the pool system up into the top of the aft funnel in order to supply the AquaDuck. A single, straight section of pipe with one 90 degree bend would have sufficed, but that wouldn't have looked cool enough.



The Ducky Dinghy. When it's finished, there's a life-sized Donald Duck inside rowing it. You can see the cutout where his bottom mates with the assembly just above the life ring.

engineers can be such a pain in the butt. :D

Disney UK Cruise Ship?

:brain:


It's Fantasy, the fourth ship in the Disney Cruise Lines fleet. They're based in the US, however the ship is being constructed in Germany by Meyer Werft. She left the shipyard a few weeks ago and moved to Bremerhaven for final outfitting. On the 16th they depart for the US, arriving in New York on May 1 for the christening, then heading down to Port Canaveral in Florida to begin her normal Caribbean service.

The yard is really an amazing place. Their indoor drydock (which is the second-largest building in the world after Boeing's final-assembly plantin Seattle) houses two ships side-by-side, with a staging area between them, and they crank out about one of these per year.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1328743733

Joe, that's really badass.

Kind of random but, given your expertise, have you ever been on an offshore oil platform?

Joe, that's a pretty cool gig. Looks like a beautiful ship.

I'm sure there is no gap in the solidworks model; must be a mistake by a guy reading the drawing, not the engineer. :magna:

Joe invented the offshore drilling platform.

What's funny is that's the same guy who wrote this, and I KNOW everyone has heard:

That would be great for psychological warfare.

Getting ready for my birthday tomorrow:
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1328767992

MT.net west coast meetup? :giggle: