Thursday, January 7, 2010

[Electric Boats] Re: Eco shipping

 

The researchers that staff the Farallon islands rely on (mostly) sailboats for transport to/fro and also for supplies:

http://www.prbo.org/OBSERVER/Observer108/FP108.html

It will be a Great Day when one of them is electric - I'm still chicken :) .

Cheers,

-Keith

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <mstafford@...> wrote:
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> Mark Stafford here looking forward. When you do finish your e-cruisers, how about financing your tour of the world (or parts thereof) by carrying a little extra cargo? The big dogs are finally seeing some opportunity to scrounge some green with green shipping, what with the huge kites and the upcoming sail shippers:
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> http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/ocean-kites-top-10-green-ship-designs/
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> http://www.b9shipping.com/history.html
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> I'd love to see a micro-shipping aggregator service that connects small loads with pleasure cruisers already going that way.
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> I'm still on the hard, trying to work in a depth transducer to my steep sided hull (55' x 10')
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> Mark Stafford
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