Sailing Puzzle

[Guest]

A Sailing Ship sails around the world around the eqauator. Which part of the sip travels the furthest distance and why?

[Gambit]

You can't travel around the world on the equator on a ship.......unless you wanted to carry it over a lot of land.

lol ok lets call it a flying ship then. anyone heard of the Flying Dutchman?

[Guest]

lol ok lets call it a flying ship then. anyone heard of the Flying Dutchman?

Yes - it's ghost ship, based on folk lore with variables, a variation was made by hollywood with James Mason an exceptional actor

[Guest]

wat about the ppl on the boat? they move back and forth as well as the ship moving

[Guest]

If the equator was used as the sailing route then did the ship sail on land as well?

does the ship have wheels as well?

If so then the outter part of the wheel was traveling the furthest, for every rotation it made. Or maybe were just over analyzing it.

[Guest]

if there are wheels on the bottom then you can - sort of like a duck: floats on water and walks on land

You could try a DUCK tour

[Guest]

To respond to some of the replies, particularly on the semanics, I did not say that the 'world' was our world, this is a fictious world called 'Riddleglobe' I think it may be wise to assume the majority of the riddles posted on this site are on such a fictious would as this.

Now that's interesting... now we need to know what geometrical shape best describes Riddleglobe. Even assuming Riddleglobe is approximately spherical, there is still the possibility that Riddleglobe is hollow and exhibits reverse gravity and interior winds, thus allowing a ship to sail on the inside surface of the sphere! In this case, the "top" of the ship would actually travel the smallest distance, assuming one is not accounting for local oscillations of the mast.

Not trying to be an arse... just having some fun with it!

[Guest]

Do we really give a damn if you could sail on the equator???This is a puzzle!

Also,if you want to be so literal,are there people who ALWAYS say a lie,or ALWAYS say the truth?

No.

So,please,don't be that way,all talking about impossible crap. WHO CARES?!?

[Guest]

i think what the question meant was immagine you could follow the equator and it was all water and no land. then the answer is the top. i got it farly quick and thats what i tought they meant

[dyalDragon]

back to the sails and anchor ideas... assuming that you could sail all the away around on the equator:

Wouldn't the people walking around on the ship during the whole trip be covering much more distance than any part of the ship?

Reminds me of that old question: If you are on a train (or spaceship or whatever floats your boat...) moving at the speed of light, and you walk towards the front of the train... how fast are you going?