http://floatery.com A Blog of Boats and Crafts. Tue, 12 May 2009 05:22:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_304" align="alignnone" width="414" caption="Photo by Kathy Mansfield"] [/caption] Among many others, I have long admired Iain Oughtred's boat designs.  I found photographer Kathy Mansfield has uploaded this stunning set of photos of a variety of Oughtred's designs sailing in Scotland.  Recently, I've been thinking more about building one of Oughtred's designs, ... http://floatery.com/?p=295 Caillou boats made this cool side car for a tandem bike to hold their sailing kayak.  These guys apparently sell boats in only fancy, expensive stores.  It looks to be a fine boat, though I don't see much backup to their claim of having "a better small boat."  It appears ... http://floatery.com/?p=293 [caption id="attachment_312" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="It's smart to put a helmet on the brain that built this boat."][/caption] Gizmag has an article about the Frisian Solar Challenge that took place last summer in Friesland, a northern province of Holland.  There isn't a lot of info about the race itself, but the photos are ... http://floatery.com/?p=283 I found a great page of solar boats at SolarNavigator.net.  Unfortunately, I cant find information about this boat in particular whose image is posted.  It looks like an insect, but I like its space-ship quality.  The modern trimaran designs of a lot of solar boats prevent the salty look I enjoy ... http://floatery.com/?p=287   The Redwing 18 from Chesapeake Marine Design fits many of my ideals for a Harbor cruiser / adventure craft.  It can take electric power with the efficient shape of a launch.  You can beach it, and it has berths.  At 18 ft, it should sit inside most garages. ... http://floatery.com/?p=276 I first read about ELCO in the book Devil in the White City.  The book tells the true story of a serial killer living the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. It simultaneously tells the story of designing and building the fair itself. ELCO was the company hired by ... http://floatery.com/?p=270 Ko Ko Oo and Haung Htaik are lucky to be alive after supposedly floating at sea for 25 days in a cooler.  They apparently survived in monsoon water and fish barfed up by cormorants.  I am quite interested in this survival technique of having birds share their fish.  This follow ... http://floatery.com/?p=267 According to the around in ten site, " No one turned up in their 10ft boats to race around the world."  Oh well.  I wouldn't do that either.  It was a dwindling group already.   The main man master microcruiser Tom McNally is still on the scene though, draw big crowds at ... http://floatery.com/?p=262 Ted Ciamillo plans to cross the atlantic this summer in this wet-type submarine in 50 days.  The is sub is human (pedal) powered with carbon fiber flukes.  Apparently this fun fin (available for humans as the Lunocet) is 15% more efficient than the best rigid propellors!  I'm lazy, so I'd love ... http://floatery.com/?p=259 Thanks to a friend Jasmine, I recently got to scan these photographs from Brazil circa 1950 (give or take 10 years).  Her Grandfather was a pilot for Panam, a sailor, and photographer. In one of his trips to Brazil he took these pictures.  I am curious to learn more about ... http://floatery.com/?p=248