Righted and loaded for France The broken remains of the Jules Verne trimaran Groupama 3 were loaded aboard the ship Egelantiersgracht at...
Computer Illiterate I must preface this posting with a warning :eek: ....you are taking to a somewhat computer illiterate person who came to this...
There's a paragraph at Harvard professor Michael Brenner's pages at http://www.seas.harvard.edu/brenner/Research%203.html "We have been...
Sparkman & Stephens is celebrating its storied past and looking ahead to its future with in a series of milestone events this summer. The...
,.....consider these unusual findings from Mother Nature: DURHAM, N.C. -- Wind tunnel tests of scale-model humpback whale flippers have...
Thanks Tony, that was tremendously informative
Great looking line of boats Lars
Dashew's FPB I find his approch to creating an ocean going vessel to be superb. I thought a photo in this thread might be appropriate to draw...
Client Source ? Amazing!!! I wonder where they are finding the clients for these vessels....all the more power to them.
This is quite incredible !! Scotland's waterway 'elevator' What an engineering marvel !!
Crew Interviews Back in France after righting Groupama 3 in the New Zealand port of Dunedin, eight of the crew of the giant trimaran were in...
First Voyage Completed The First MS Beluga SkySails Voyage On January 22, for the first time since the masts of major shipping vessels fell to...
Interesting Energy Use ...from another forum Brian, here is a link to a great follow up effort about the concerns "Crude" brings to light....
USA reaction Actually I believe we may have reached the point where the American public will demand conservation and new technology. In the past...
CO2 and Volcanoes Not long ago I had occassion to rewatch a presentation on the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in Indonesia. This single event...
Here is a pretty good photo of that:
CO2 Omissions vs HydroCarbon Usage One of my primary concerns in this debate is not so much the CO2 emmissions situation, but rather our wasteful...
I live in Washington DC (at least for a while longer), and I can attest to many a misleading named foundations and think tanks in this city....
Shore Side arrival The 32 metre French multihull, Groupama 3, is alongside a wharf in Dunedin harbour. She was towed into harbour by a Port...
Bertram 31 Those 31 Bertrams (posting #313) were a classic design, but what has always interested me is the apparent 'out of proportion'...
