Phil Weld, defied the caution of age Ocean racing is a sport "where the accretion of wisdom can offset diminishing physical power". So says...
Rafting the Mississippi Here is another story of a few young guys rafting 1700 miles down the Mississippi river. Good on them...an adventure...
Thanks JS, you are correct. The strangest thing is that one advertisement identified her as a Rhodes Discoverer, and of 52' in length. We have...
Thanks for that. I had written in several discussions, Per the home page of your website and one of your foundation’s most basic goals, "may our...
Aluminum-Celmet material improves Lithium-Ion A new material developed by Japanese company Sumitomo Electric could help allay such fears by...
I understand where you are coming from....but I believe there has been a significant improvement in the bonding of these polyurethanes in the past...
So are they moving their boatbuilding operation to China?
Medetomidine anti-foulant http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/news/news/2045/ medetomidine causes barnacles to get hyperactive and...
Polyurea Coatings This video might help explain the spraying technics mentioned above. You can certainly see the 'thickness quality' of the...
Polyurea Coatings I've seen too many wood vessels that were 'glassed over' just not stand the test of time. Invariably the resins are never...
http://keys.craigslist.org/boa/2457457922.html Thought it would be appropriate to post the photo from the graigslist ad as that link will...
more sedate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdqXoIhg0dA
Nice video of this great design really booking along http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44x5KdciqO8
Ben has a Rhodes website up here, and he has updated his site with some of this info: http://astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/pr/816-discoverer.htm
Length Discrepancy We are still doing a little research on the actual length of this Discoverer model. We have references to it being 52', 47',...
Discoverer A yacht designer Tad Roberts has come up with an older magazine ad that seems to be exactly the vessel. ...From Yachting of June 1970
i-Tit ANNOUNCEMENT Apple announced today that it has developed a breast implant that can store and play music. The iTit will cost from $499...
Boat Gambling Two bored BOAT casino dealers are waiting at the crap table. A very attractive Blonde woman from Alabama arrived and bet...
Retractable Platforms Another observation by Plankton: Your multi-hulls are extremely interesting and I think your designs are pretty much...
I'm searching for someone who might know older boat designs (from the 50 & 60's), and that might be able to identify a particular design as either...
