User:Seanseamour
Seanseamour
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Seanseamour
We are not ususally as laid back but here resting in Mindelo after a gruelsome passage from Sardinia to Cape Verde. On my shoulder our Sardinian stowaway. The day before leaving for our Atlantic crossing a local Sarde aware of our imminent departure comes alongside asking me if we are willing to make this young Yorkshire Terrier a little american - Mayke is down below but I already knew her answer. "Bentley" would take to sea and I back to the supermarket for a month of canned dogfood
- Name Seanseamour
- Email Address (protected)
- Location Provence, south of France
- Things I Care About : helping mariners choose and install green systems on their vessels
- My Websites:
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The GreenBoat Adventure
It all started after the loss of our Sean Seamour II between Cape Hatteras and Bermuda last May 7th. I was in quandary to define what Sean Seamour III should be (see Final Log , en Français Le Récit). My wife Mayke had long insisted that we should have a silent boat (no diesel engine to smell or hear) and a catamaran for it offers a stable platform. I had long insisted that we would never have a boat that could not right itself from a 180°. After the events of May 7th, moving to a Catamaran is no longer a debate, on the other hand, silent clean propulsion remains both her desire and my curiosity.
Living on the Mediterranean where wind is either overly abundant or non existent (sailing to Corsica is often motoring there), we opted for a Nauticat 33 motorsailor. A stable platform with a deep keel, decent sailing performance with its extended ketch rig, foremost, a great platform to experiment its transformation into a diesel-electric hybrid as a first step before, we hope a fuel cell electric drive as these energy generation technologies mature. Through this blog we would like to share our ideas, trials and tribulations, as well as create an interactive repository of knowledge and references on the state of the art and where it may be going. Please don’t hesitate to share and contribute, we are all breaking ground.
In the months ahead we will be looking at all the facets of going green. This means breaking down the technology blocks constitutive of a green system, looking at who and what is present and or emerging. We will study the performance and suitability for our project. We are also keeping a sharp eye on new technologies in related areas in an effort to see when and if technology migration, or perhaps we should use the term crossover, may come to benefit green boat adventures where ever they may be.
In our quest to transform and constantly evolve Sean Seamour III as a demonstrator we hope players from all horizons will come and join our adventures, manufacturers and inventors with innovative ideas, system integrator, yards and craftsmen - in essence mariners like us seeking to make the sea a greener place to be. contact :
site : greenboatbateauvert
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