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By Nigel Calder on
5/4/2010
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I’ve been looking through my files and it looks like I haven’t written anything in a year! I’m shocked – I had no idea it has been that long. It’s not for lack of activity, but because of too much to do.
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The Hybrid Marine Project Moves into High Gear |
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By Nigel Calder on
4/16/2009
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The boating season in northern Europe is rapidly approaching, at the same time as we are about to sign the final contract with the European Union for the Hybrid Marine (HYMAR) project. After a rather slow year, and some frustrating delays in starting the project, we will soon be in high gear.
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By Nigel Calder on
1/26/2009
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As a full-time marine technical writer, I track technologies and write about them. Over the course of the past three or four years, a number of new and exciting technologies have been introduced that, if successful, will revolutionize boat electrical systems and perhaps propulsion systems.
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The Dusseldorf Boat Show, Jan 2008 |
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By Nigel Calder on
1/26/2009
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The Dusseldorf Boat Show, Jan 2008
The Dusseldorf boat show is enormous. It fills 17 huge halls and attracts over 250,000 visitors. If you want to pull together a meeting of European boatbuilders and marine suppliers, this is the place to do it. Accordingly, we held the first meeting of all the players in our bid to seek European Union funding for the marine hybrid research and development that my parallel hybrid diesel-electric project has sparked.
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March 19th, 2008: ‘Nada’ Nears Completion |
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By Nigel Calder on
1/26/2009
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March 19th, 2008: ‘Nada’ Nears Completion
As I write this ‘Nada’ is in the finish shop getting the Malo beauty treatment. I am in the States still sourcing a few missing pieces for which there are wires hanging out of empty holes on the boat:
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Initial Test Results. |
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By Nigel Calder on
1/26/2009
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Once again, I’m way behind with the blog. There’s a great deal to report on. In spite of some fairly awful weather at times, we had some great cruising over the course of the summer on Sweden’s west coast.
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