October 2007

Learning
Green boating

In honour of BlogActionDay, we're writing about our plans for making Scream an environmentally friendly boat. Scream is currently equipped with a Diesel engine, which both supplies propulsion and provides electricity to charge the batteries.  Like all Diesel powered boats, the engine is acceptably efficient at moving the boat, but it doesn't generate electricity efficiently. […]

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Travel
Repositioning Cruise

Last Sunday, September 30th, my friends Bjarne Hansen and Peter Holland assisted me with repositioning Scream to her new home in Victoria's downtown inner harbour.  As the date and course were fixed, the weather decided to punish me for my presumptuousness.  The winds wailed all night, and the forecast was for Gales35-45 on the nose, […]

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