Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Al Kraft]

She's a beamy one.

I recognize you need room for crew and gear, but this does look like the L/B is lower than I would have expected for a racing hull. However, IIRC from naval architecture classes (in the mid 70's) there is a critical trade space area where you need more beam than you'd ideally like in order to get sufficient stability to handle large sail area at starting speeds. In any event, that isn't what I would have expected.

 

[Al Kraft]

Come to think of it though, maybe the compromise for more beam adds low speed stability to allow for significantly increased sail area and the hydrofoils are going to reduce the wetted area of the hull to the point that beam becomes less significant. In fact maybe the aerodynamic aspects of the hull become a bigger drag issue at that point. This the time when I usually phone a naval architect friend!

 

[Passinwind]

Looks like some pretty good chop on the water there.

Aye, perfect windsurfing conditions actually. They towed out in flat water and it kicked up to 20+knots by the time they were rigged. Race limits will be 23knts, so they were definitely pushing things for a first day. It’s their style, which i dig a lot.

 

[Passinwind]

Come to think of it though, maybe the compromise for more beam adds low speed stability to allow for significantly increased sail area and the hydrofoils are going to reduce the wetted area of the hull to the point that beam becomes less significant. In fact maybe the aerodynamic aspects of the hull become a bigger drag issue at that point. This the time when I usually phone a naval architect friend!

Yeah, there’s only the most minimal keel and a whole lot of rig horsepower. If the hull ever touches the water you will likely lose the race in many if not most cases. These things foil in 6 knots of wind too, crazy.

Airbus is a titled partner, ‘nuff said. And the Team Principal is Roger Penske, so these guys definitely mean business.

 

[Jeff Scott]

...Roger Penske...

He sails hails from my neck of the woods.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Aye, perfect windsurfing conditions actually. They towed out in flat water and it kicked up to 20+knots by the time they were rigged. Race limits will be 23knts, so they were definitely pushing things for a first day. It’s their style, which i dig a lot.

That's mad. Twenty knots in a dinghy.

Because the El in 50s New York is no place for Kodachrome:

 

[beans-on-toast]

A 1962 EB-6 bass. They came out in 1959 as a hollow body, and was switched to an SG style body in '61. They were in production till 1966. Used by Ben Orr of the cars as well as Wes Montgomery.

In 1964, the jack could be in the back or front.

 

[GwenOnBass]

A tobacco burst EB-6

[picking my eyeballs up off the floor]

 

[beans-on-toast]

Looking at the string gauges, it was strung like a guitar but an octave lower, low to high, E-A-D-G-B-E. This is the same as the Fender VI which came out in 1961. The first electric six like this was a Danelectro in 1956.

The Fender VI proved popular with The Beatles and many others.

• John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin
• Joe Perry - Aerosmith
• Duff McKagan - Guns N' Roses
• Rick Danko - The Band
• Robbie Robertson - The Hawks
• Jack Bruce - Cream
• John Entwistle - The Who
• George Harrison - The Beatles: Hey Jude, Back in the USSR, Rocky Raccoon, Birthday, Honey Pie, Old_Brown_Shoe, The_Ballad_of_John_and_Yoko, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight
• John Lennon - The Beatles: Back in the USSR, Rocky Raccoon, Helter_Skelter, Dig It, THe Long And Winding Road, Let It Be
• Eric Haydock - The Hollies
• Peter Green - Fleetwood Mac

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Got a little worried there when the chick broke out Mr. Microphone. Then I saw the cherry burst Les Paul and it was all good again.

Actually I was very interested in what kind of mic's those were. I want to do some busking next summer, hopefully we'll get our tour ships back daily and I can bring my guitar and Roland pa/amp and open up my guitar case for some cold hard cash... anyway cool looking mic I thought.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Looking at the string gauges, it was strung like a guitar but an octave lower, low to high, E-A-D-G-B-E. This is the same as the Fender VI which came out in 1961. The first electric six like this was a Danelectro in 1956.

The Fender VI proved popular with The Beatles and many others.

• John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin
• Joe Perry - Aerosmith
• Duff McKagan - Guns N' Roses
• Rick Danko - The Band
• Robbie Robertson - The Hawks
• Jack Bruce - Cream
• John Entwistle - The Who
• George Harrison - The Beatles: Hey Jude, Back in the USSR, Rocky Raccoon, Birthday, Honey Pie, Old_Brown_Shoe, The_Ballad_of_John_and_Yoko, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight
• John Lennon - The Beatles: Back in the USSR, Rocky Raccoon, Helter_Skelter, Dig It, THe Long And Winding Road, Let It Be
• Eric Haydock - The Hollies
• Peter Green - Fleetwood Mac

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I've never played a six string bass. But, are they tuned the same as a six string guitar?

 

[Jeff Scott]

...are they tuned the same as a six string guitar?

Yes they are, just an octave down.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Some very fine Beatles songs for your late night listening pleasure:

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Yes they are, just an octave down.

Thanks @Jeff Scott !

 

[beans-on-toast]

Actually I was very interested in what kind of mic's those were. I want to do some busking next summer, hopefully we'll get our tour ships back daily and I can bring my guitar and Roland pa/amp and open up my guitar case for some cold hard cash... anyway cool looking mic I thought.

What you are seeing in the video is a custom windscreen used by SWR1, an internet radio station in Germany. Yellow screens are widely available, but not that one as far as I know.

The shape looks similar to an AKG C414 but that mic is not wireless. That windscreen could be stuck onto any mic.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Some very fine Beatles songs for your late night listening pleasure:

that was a lot of French horns to start my Tuesday.

 

[beans-on-toast]

The Bee Gees should stick to their own material.

 

[Charlie Tango]

Actually I was very interested in what kind of mic's those were. I want to do some busking next summer, hopefully we'll get our tour ships back daily and I can bring my guitar and Roland pa/amp and open up my guitar case for some cold hard cash... anyway cool looking mic I thought.

She was wearing a backpack, I think, and I saw an antenna sticking up out of it in one shot.

 

[Passinwind]

Yes they are, just an octave down.

Some are, especially the old school ones. Many are tuned differently though, starting with the fattest string at B or lower, sometimes much lower. A high C is more common than a high B for the lower tuned ones as well IME.

 

[GwenOnBass]

My natural inclination is to avoid people with a microphone and hidden transmitter in their backpack.