{"id":6967,"date":"2009-09-19T00:31:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T05:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=6967"},"modified":"2009-09-19T02:34:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T07:34:14","slug":"historic-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/historic-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Precedent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/diitisham-uk-157.jpg\" alt=\"Diitisham-UK-157\" width=\"576\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Odds are in the marine business that anything that looks new has been done before in some form or other. As partial evidence we offer the following series of photos taken on the Dart River in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>This is the remnants of a World War 11 era Fairmile patrol vessel. These were used for a variety of anti-submarine, coastal patrol, air sea rescue, and clandestine functions. They had to operate in the awful wind and sea states which abound in Europe, so you can assume they were seaworthy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/diitisham-uk-155.jpg\" alt=\"Diitisham-UK-155\" width=\"576\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, she is tired and has seen better days, but this was a very efficient sea boat in its day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/diitisham-uk-154.jpg\" alt=\"Diitisham-UK-154\" width=\"576\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This hull shape would be able to slice through the chop with ease, and cruise at high speed with low power requirements.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/diitisham-uk-152.jpg\" alt=\"Diitisham-UK-152\" width=\"576\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How about this nice stern? When steep British seas swept down this hull they would not find much buoyancy aft with which to shove the bow down.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting concept&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odds are in the marine business that anything that looks new has been done before in some form or other. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/historic-precedent\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}