Random part of the day: Ship Middle S.16X8X2 1/3 Ø4.85

Someday I’d like to make the Irish Rover…

Whoo look at them love handles! Uhhh can you body shame LEGO…?

Mmmmm, boat hulls. This is the newer version which came in both black and white! Alas, it does not come in trans neon green.

I'd like to see you build something with this that isn't 16 studs long

@Be_hapi:
@560heliport:
@HOBBES:
Or…wait, exactly how much space do you need for 27 masts with fore and aft rigging? We’re not limited to just one of these, right?

@PurpleDave: Which one...personally, I'd build Will Millar...:D

"Part wise: I've gotten a few of these mostly in reddy brown, also two in red...or maybe its previous/later incarnation...the r-b ones are being used towards (sail-punk pirate) shipbuilding, and the reds are going towards a jet...still calculating the roof on that one...:)

lol random parts right building ship or plane

I feel like if we have aft for the front and stern for the back, the middle of the ship should have some fancy term but all I can find are very specific terms for technical bits of a ship

@Brickalili: "Hull" is generally the term, but then again; that also applies 'stem-to-stern'...I've also heard "Beam", but that only applies to a ship's/boat's widest point(s)...

The part that made me buy a friends set 41015, twice !!!

@Brickalili:
Aft is anything towards the rear. Fore is anything towards the front. Stern is the very back end. Bow is the very front end. Stem is a physical component that the hull planking attaches to, most often at the front (but canoes have two stems). Transom is the flat plate that hull planking attaches to, most often at the back (but Chinese junks and sampans have two transoms). The widest point is the beam. The middle section is amidships.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili:
Aft is anything towards the rear. Fore is anything towards the front. Stern is the very back end. Bow is the very front end. Stem is a physical component that the hull planking attaches to, most often at the front (but canoes have two stems). Transom is the flat plate that hull planking attaches to, most often at the back (but Chinese junks and sampans have two transoms). The widest point is the beam. The middle section is amidships."

See this is what I meant when I said I got bogged down in a whole heap of very specific phrasing. It’s like each millimetre of a boat needs it’s own terminology

@Brickalili:
Oh, it can get crazy. There’s no such thing as a rope on a ship. If it’s used to raise a sail, it’s a halyard. If it’s used to trim a sail, it’s a sheet. If it keeps a mast from falling over, it’s a stay (fore-to-aft) or a shroud (port-to-starboard). If it’s used to moor, it’s a hawser or a mooring line, depending on how thick it is. Most other forms of rope are some type of line. Almost nothing on a ship has the same name it would on land.

Well I'll be. Another part I didn't realize they'd re-designed. Seems I mostly have the old version...

@Brickalili:
BTW, there was a point to all of that. If a storm hits on land, you close shutters, maybe board up some windows, grab loved ones/pets/maybe a few valuables and provisions, and seek shelter. If you do that on a ship, the next thing you know, there’s an old salt at the bar claiming to be the lone survivor, and telling you how even, “the poor ol’ dog was drowned.” In a storm, it really was “all hands on deck.” You have to fight like you mean it. On a large ship, there may be a second helm mounted in front of the primary one, which would allow you to put four strong guys on it to keep the ship on the right bearing. Someone’s going to be calling out orders to the sailors up on the masts, letting them know which sails need to be adjusted in which manner, and every officer and able-bodied sailor on that ship needs to know exactly which sails they’re referring to. A fully-rigged ship might have 30-40 sails to manage (the Irish Rover could have had over 200, which might explain why it sank). If someone is lost overboard or otherwise put out of commission, someone else might need to replace them (if you’ve got bodies to spare) and do their job without any additional training, and knowing the proper names of every part of the ship makes that possible.