The Elcano Challenge: Ground-Based Circumnavigation (5th)

[Akagi]

@damerell would it be acceptable to make the following modifications to my Kerbin Elcano boat?

• Keel with ballast bulb and rudder
• Panthers in place of Wheeselys
• Air intakes replaced with low-speed intakes

 

Edited Monday at 10:23 PM by Akagi
hey llok new page; linked report

[damerell]

20 hours ago, Akagi said:

@damerell would it be acceptable to make the following modifications to my Kerbin Elcano boat?

• Keel with ballast bulb and rudder
• Panthers in place of Wheeselys
• Air intakes replaced with low-speed intakes

If I read the thread correctly, you've only got about 200km from the start, and this doesn't sound like too drastic a modification, so I think I'm OK with it (although I look forward to seeing the new craft).

I am finally back home and can catch up on some of these timelapses.

[Ianwubby]

I've got one more for ya:

 

Also I think probably scratch what I mentioned about my Eve ideas; I was wondering if I could glitch a propeller boat underground using bendy-tech timewarp shenanigans, and do a completely aquatic eve circumnavigation instead of doing part of the trip on land.

I made a boat design that could hit like 70m/s, so we'd be talking about like <18 hours for the circumnavigation potentially. But for some reason, propellers stay in place and don't stay connected to the ship when it straightens itself out when activating time warp??? So I just can't find a way to get propellers underground, which makes the whole plan kinda not work at all. My only other thought is trying to construct the propellers on the boat in EVA after getting underground, which already sounds super janky and hard to keep balanced, but the kerbals also just explode when they get out of the crew cabin underground.

Idk, I'll probably look into it some more but I'm not feeling optimistic at this point. And it might be for the best anyway, 'cause it feels like it might run aground of the "breaking the spirit of the challenge" rule-

Edited yesterday at 09:06 AM by Ianwubby

[damerell]

OK, I've watched all three timelapses. It must have been exasperating to clobber the Minmus landing module with the command module like that. Given the lack of life support considerations, I'm surprised you did rove in the dark rather than waiting for the dawn.

Last question - these are all stock? I didn't see what looked like any modded parts.

3 hours ago, Ianwubby said:

I was wondering if I could glitch a propeller boat underground using bendy-tech timewarp shenanigans

I'm going to have to nip this one in the bud and say that this is definitely not permitted. Sorry.

[Ianwubby]

5 hours ago, damerell said:

It must have been exasperating to clobber the Minmus landing module with the command module like that. Given the lack of life support considerations, I'm surprised you did rove in the dark rather than waiting for the dawn.

The clobbering wouldn't have been that bad if I'd thought ahead to put an SAS module on the lander - I've never really used that landing cabin before and didn't realize it doesn't have any in-built SAS, which is why I ended up using so much RCS fuel and opted out of a normal rendezvous-and-docking at the end of the mission.

And yeah it probably would have been a better experience waiting until dawn, but I wanted to try for relatively fast times as well, and waiting hours for the sun to rise would have made that metric a lot worse lol.

5 hours ago, damerell said:

Last question - these are all stock?

Sorry yeah I forgot to mention it, all of them are stock.

5 hours ago, damerell said:

I'm going to have to nip this one in the bud and say that this is definitely not permitted.

No worries, perfectly understandable.

Edited 17 hours ago by Ianwubby