Model boat with numerous sails - photo

[Jon]

Model boat with numerous sails. Anyone know what's going on here? Recreation of a fictional boat?




Previously:

Lightning hits sailboat - GIF
Glider with sails - photo
Sailing a boat under a bridge - GIF and video
Pamir, the last commercial sailing vessel - photo

[jdurand]

A sale on sails?

[mklotz]

I think it must be fictional...

The largest sail ship extant today has only five masts and about forty sails...

https://twistedsifter.com/2016/06/ro...-sailing-ship/

Maneuvering a full-size ship with that much sail would be a nightmare and would probably take too long to be satisfactorily responsive to weather changes.

Now the question becomes: Why would anyone build such a model?

[JTG]

Based on the original poster's comments, this model was commissioned by someone with 400 employees, with a sail for each one. They say that the model was of the Amerigo Vespucci (this one, I think), though it was embellished accordingly to support that many sails.

Edit: The boat has its own Wikipedia page.

Double Edit: Here's a shortened url to the original post, as the profanity filter killed the first link. Note that the reddit comments are of the usual quality (poor) -- only one of them is from the original poster, and it's buried fairly far down.

[jimfols]

Looks like it was designed by a frustrated sailor fresh out of turbine school.

[IntheGroove]

Any way the wind blows, this ship is in trouble...

[Big Sexy]

If it was a real ship, I’d hate to be the poor bastard that has to set all of them.

[jimfols]

When the sun is over the Yard Arm it's time to Splice the Main Brace.

[baja]

Does it have all those sails to compensate for the tiny propeller?

[mklotz]

Based on the original poster's comments, this model was commissioned by someone with 400 employees, with a sail for each one. They say that the model was of the Amerigo Vespucci (this one, I think), though it was embellished accordingly to support that many sails.

Edit: The boat has its own Wikipedia page.

"original poster's comments" URL is a dead end. Please correct; I'd like to read it.