[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 754 – Catamaran Ferry (TL10)

[Onno Meyer]

  This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the 
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redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on 
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  Onno Meyer, 2009-04-06

Catamaran Ferry v1.0 (TL10)
  Copyright 2009 by Onno Meyer

  The Catamaran Ferry links floating settlements on water worlds. Built 
for speed, she can carry commuters on short distances or passengers and 
cargo on long distances to a central starport.
  The main deck contains the cargo bay with forward and rear ramps, and 
comfortable seats for the passengers. Crew cabins are lower in the twin 
hulls, along with the engines and a closed recycling system. The bridge 
on the top deck has four computerized, aircraft-style workstations. On 
calm days, one helmsman can operate all systems, but a normal crew has 
about twenty sailors in three shifts, from the captain down to deck 
hands for cargo handling. 

Subassemblies: Body +8. 
Powertrain: Two 15,000-kW hydrojets; 32,000-kW fusion reactor; six 
  360,000-kWs rechargeable power cells.
Occ: 4 RCS, 10 cabins, 80 RS.   Cargo: 24,000 cf

Armor    F      RL     B      T      U
Body:   4/36   4/36   4/36   4/36   4/36

Equipment:
  Body: Two very-long-range radios; two medium laser communicators; two 
5x LLTVs; 10-mile radar, surface-search; 2.5-mile active sonar; 5-mile 
radscanner; two sets of navigation instruments; two transponders; two 
global positioning systems; four C4 small computers; four terminals; 
compact fire suppression system; two cargo ramps; galley; 100-man total 
life system.

Statistics
Size: 150'x50'x25'   Payload: 250 tons     Lwt.: 375 tons
Volume: 75,000 cf    Maint.: 8 man-hours   Price: $2,684,375

HT: 10.   HPs: 18,000 Body

wSpeed: 125   wAccel: 15   wDecel: 2(9.5)   wMR: 0.25   wSR: 8
Draft 7.3'. Flotation Rating 1,950 tons.

Design Notes
  Body is 75,000 cf, with average hydrodynamics, good streamlining and a 
catamaran hull. Structure is medium, cheap. Armor is cheap metal. 
Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 3,000 cf 
empty space. Empty weight is 250,000 lbs. 
  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third 
printing, January 2007 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume 
rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. 


Next Week: A little TL10 shuttle for David.