Morning from the Pacific Northwest Kurt,

> On November 27, 2019 at 7:59 PM Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
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> I think one of the best ways to design deckplans is to have real
> deckplans of actual ships to use as a reference.   Even though the
> reference plans are for a seagoing, 20th-21st century ship, I think they
> offer a good guideline to how various systems are laid out when there
> are large crews.  The Star Trek approach to a bridge is fine if you have
> a handful of bridge personnel and are in a rather fantasy setting set in
> space.  I've much preferred the 2003 Battlestar Galactica approach to a
> bridge; large, lots of workstations, lots of displays, etc.  That's a
> lot closer to real world examples than Trek ever was, and given the
> "hard, but easily malleable science" of Traveller, I think it's also
> more appropriate.
>
> The AHL bridge seems to support this.
>
> But what about all those other systems that support the bridge or CIC? 
> Communications, navigation, engineering, etc?  That's where using
> existing designs as a roadmap can help.
>
> The other night, by chance I had to look up the phrase "hot, straight,
> and normal" and make sure I was using it in the right context.  I found
> a website that confirmed it, and as I was reading the thread found a
> link to another site, and that's where the gold mine is...
>
> Want deck plans of USS Lexington?  How about USS New Jersey?  Or perhaps
> a USCG buoy tender?  They're here.  Or perhaps manuals on how to do
> certain tasks and how things work?  Yep, they're there.
>
> Here's the primary site: https://maritime.org/doc/index.htm
> And here are the deck plans: https://maritime.org/doc/plans/index.htm
>

Thank you for the links.

Tom Rux