I'm developing an app that has significant potential impact for the maritime community, essentially an AIS surrogate that runs on smart-phones....
Good feedback on titanium Karo, Thanks for the comprehensive response... the article I posted had interesting points, but not having much...
Titanium's total ownership cost.... Check out U.S. Navy: The Business Case for a Titanium Granted, its a paper study, but for someone who...
Anticipointment Exhaustipated brings to mind one of my favorites: Anticipointment:D
Whale steals boat while crew on shore.... Quite the video!!! Whale Steals Boat At Anchor - YouTube Apparently happened Sept 7 in the PNW.
So true regarding the multiple explanations! The son of a gun stuff is funny too... I was looking for a similar favorite but then found the...
Three sheets... I was told at a traditional windmill site that the 4 panels that power the mill would have 4 sails/sheets mounted in typical...
Once you're into thermal the added cost of daylight/lowlight is negligible. Thermal can be confusing when there's significant hot spots, such as...
Maritime Academy? In the US a great route (and a huge investment of time/funding) is to do a four year maritime academy. It is a major...
What could go wrong?!?!? Low tide, fog, trainee captain at the helm, decision to take the Provincetown III fast ferry through Nubbles Channel,...
Making a small fortune I think you could make small fortune rebuilding boats... assuming you start with a large one!:eek: Seriously, unless...
China vs. Turkey I don't know enough of either country to have an opinion, but for reference George Beuehler has nearly identical steel...
Amusing Olympics Commentary This olympic sailboat race commentary is out there... :rolleyes: quite funny... mature audiences (language).......
Falkirk video The Falkirk is on my bucket list of amusements to ride... an absolute engineering marvel! Falkirk wheel time lapse - YouTube
Point at hand... Sail-World.com : 4.a.m. and who's on watch? :eek:
Try Nice, FR I stayed in Nice a few years back, the price was reasonable, and the hotel was about 3 blocks from the train (can't remember the...
Agreed, that is an absolutely amazing accomplishment... too bad there isn't a video of getting them all out of the hole... there must have been a...
Safety? Yikes... that last picture shows craft with spinning props following far too close for comfort!:eek: At least it nots that way in the...
Canadian options Since you asked.... A couple weeks ago my desalinator blew a line, a simple SS part but the location of my second house in...
Example... So... some have asked for clear examples... for the most part I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but an example just...
