"Pleasant Engineering Aesthetics"
Discussion
M/Y Savarona:
P/S Waverley:
Both still around today - the Savarona is available for charter (US $385,000 per week), and the Waverley (the last sea-going paddle steamer) does day trips from Glasgow and usually goes to other UK locations during the Summer.
They don't build 'em like that anymore.
P/S Waverley:
Both still around today - the Savarona is available for charter (US $385,000 per week), and the Waverley (the last sea-going paddle steamer) does day trips from Glasgow and usually goes to other UK locations during the Summer.
They don't build 'em like that anymore.
You could set a hundred product designers on the task, and you would still end up with something that looks like a Thunderbird. Nothing wrong Thunderbirds, but Concorde was nature feeding back into engineering, and I think it looks timeless as a result. Form should follow function.
Strangely enough I was marvelling at a small moth that had landed on my back door. Not only was it the shape of a Vulcan bomber, it even had the same camouflage.
Strangely enough I was marvelling at a small moth that had landed on my back door. Not only was it the shape of a Vulcan bomber, it even had the same camouflage.
I thought the Savarona is still owned by the Turkish Government and only leased to Kahraman Sadikoglu?
For me the older the ship the better the lines can be. Below is El Horriya (originally called Mahroussa) which was a Royal Yacht built for Isma'il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt in 1865. It was built by the Samuda Brothers on the River Thames and designed along the same lines as HMY Victoria and Albert II, and remained in service with the Egyptian royal family until 1951 when it became a Navy training ship but since 2001 is back as a super yacht.
At 145m in length it is the 5th biggest super yacht around as well as being the oldest at 144 yrs.
For me the older the ship the better the lines can be. Below is El Horriya (originally called Mahroussa) which was a Royal Yacht built for Isma'il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt in 1865. It was built by the Samuda Brothers on the River Thames and designed along the same lines as HMY Victoria and Albert II, and remained in service with the Egyptian royal family until 1951 when it became a Navy training ship but since 2001 is back as a super yacht.
At 145m in length it is the 5th biggest super yacht around as well as being the oldest at 144 yrs.
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