It had a great Designer....:)
We already knew that before the test even started.
It was a ship of true magnificence, that’s for sure. What an interesting read, thank you.
Thanks for posting this article - I found it quite interesting.
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With God as your designer, you can not go wrong!
Thanks for the interesting post. Ping to another wooden boat expert.
Simple it had the best designer Period!
Interesting read! Thanks for the post!
We are studying Genesis in our Thursday night Bible Study. We just finished Noah’s ark coming to rest on the mountain. This is exactly what our Pastor said. Facinating!
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Oh, come on, folks. The Bible doesn’t even describe the design of the Ark, except to say that it was as broad abeam as it was long, and was just as high. No reasonable boat has those dimensions.
If you are reading the Bible, you must show some sophistication. Remember that the Bible does not give pictorial descriptions. It does not describe in any sort of detail what Moses looked like, or Adam, or Abraham, or (in the New testament) Jesus. It also never uses accurate numbers for anything except purposes of hyperbole. That is not what the Bible is supposed to do, and you cannot read very far in it without realizing that it is not certain things: it is not a geologic history, not a manual on biology, not a blueprint for boat-building, and not a cookbook.
Pay attention to what the Bible really is telling you — then, it is to be hoped, you will get the message.
One of the things that made the design and execution of the U.S. Naval ship Constitution, and her sister ship Constellation, a significant improvement in ocean-going wooden sailing vessels, is that they addressed the issue called “hogging”.
“Hogging” is the tendency for a relatively long vessel to fold in the middle, as it is carried over a large wave.
The solution to this problem is to build a boat like a bridge, so that it is very strong along its length as well as in other directions. A boat that is defined by triangles, and diagonal bracing.
I didn’t see anything of that in the description that I read, as linked above.
A vessel the size of the Ark could possibly be an efficient enclosed raft, or barge, but it is unlikely to have been capable of surviving well in the open ocean, unless there are matters of its design and building that remain unknown to us.
The available information as presented does not allude to this possibility.
how much warning did noah have so that he’d be able to round up all these animals and build this massive ship. with modern shipbuilding techniques that’s quite an undertaking. building a ship that big, out of wood, would require an army of men several weeks at best even if they had all the material on hand on short notice.
One of those early Ming 450’ wooden cargo ships would have sufficed for Noah’s purposes. The idea that nobody could build a ship that big out of wood is simply no longer viable; it was just Europeans who couldn’t....