This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2013-03-18
Steam Yacht v1.0 (TL5) Copyright 2013 by Onno Meyer This could be the yacht of a wealthy industrialist, or perhaps a lord who believes in steam technology. She can carry twenty passengers for a day, and up to eight for longer voyages. The ship is rather wet in a head sea, so there is an enclosed bridge in the deck house, in addition to a smoking saloon and a study. Davits at the transom stern hold the steam launch. The cabins are below the main deck. The coal bunkers and engine rooms are under the water line. The yacht has four superheated water-tube boilers and two quadruple expansion engines -- a total of twelve cylinders acting on two screws. Auxiliary engines power winches, pumps, and ventilation. At 20 knots, the engines burn 3 tons of coal per hour for a range of 670 nautical miles. At just 9 knots, the coal lasts for 3,600 nautical miles. A full load of fuel and provisions is $10,000. Subassemblies: Body +7, Superstructure +5. Powertrain: Two 995-kW screw propellers; two 1,000-kW quadruple expansion steam engines; two 2.5-kW triple expansion steam engines. Fuel: 4,000 cf coal. Occ: 3 bridge RCS, 10 bunks, 8 cabins, 2 luxury cabins. Cargo: 800 cf. Armor F RL B T U Body: 4/18 4/18 4/18 4/18 4/18 Superstructure: 3/12 3/12 3/12 3/12 Equipment: Body: 4-ton external cradle; galley; 20-man environmental controls; 1,000 man-days of provisions. Superstructure: Two whistles; meteorology instruments; navigation instruments; 10-man bar; 10-man conference room; 20-man environmental controls. External: Styling; 1,800 sf top deck. Statistics Size: 120'x20'x30' Payload: 120 tons Lwt.: 300 tons Volume: 30,000 cf Maint.: 3 man-hours Price: $4,721,880 HT: 13. HPs: 19,500 Body, 4,500 Superstructure. wSpeed: 25 wAccel: 0.7 wDecel: 0.5(0.85) wMR: 0.05 wSR: 4 Draft 7.9'. Flotation rating 607.5 tons. Design Notes Finely made. Body is 27,000 cf, with very fine hydrodynamics. Superstructure is 3,000 cf, on Body. Structure is heavy, expensive. Armor is expensive metal. Waterproofed. Mechanical controls. 813.53 cf of empty space in the Body, 201.2 cf in the Superstructure. Empty weight is 360,000 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, July 2010 errata], VXi, and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A freighter. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
