What a challenge : go to sailboats without going to the past ! Happy to work with Cretus Mtonga for Tanga-North of Tanzania. More information in the next article !… A new activity Based on the conversion of old fishing boats. Our purpose is a pragmatic and practical approach to reduce today the emissions of…
Wind vs gasoline: silence and pollination, or noise and pollution ? “Ecomorphism—from oikos as habitat and morphé as form—is the result of a species’ adaptation to its environment.” says Edith Liégey, Sorbonne Université, Paris.UMR 8560 Centre Alexandre Koyré CNRS Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques. Could we just think as specie in our habitat ?…
An excellent web site to use for all the navigational charts of ALL THE OCEANS per month, in the time of all virtual, this are magnificent and incredibly precises charts, meteo information and others usefull for navigators : https://www.meteo-marine.com In French but maps in english and lot more. The pilot charts are available free of…
Plans have arrived.The challenge has been met!We didn’t have a 3D photo scan of the boat to be able to draw a virtual image on which to work in simulation and make the curve plans.We only had a side and top plane in the 2009 stability booklet.No face, no volume… The impossible mission of taking…
80 % of the ocean is unexplored Between industrial fishing and artisanal fishing: a bottomless abyss, a mare incognita where the same fish live and near which live populations remain in subsistence fishing in the South or in the form of chain employment which is tending to disappear in the North. The significant difference in…
In the belly of the whale Laser and precision in the Milou, we have to make the new form plan to design the future ship. Every stability changed after the deconstruction, the weight, the high are different, and we need to make the new stability booklet… We have to give a reference to Jérôme Delaunay,…
Black work 2018 The Michelle Louisa is cleaned up and deconstruct photos on Flickr
Preparation time: the tasks to be accomplished are numerous, standards, 29 plans to be done, directives (European, International) Standards ISO, IMO, IACS…technical questions arise. Result: everything is put in small pieces of paper with colors . The mechanic’s syndrome: we are not shipbuilding experts, but as they said during the 1973 oil crisis, we don’t…