Lift-off for speed record
News
A trimaran using advanced hydrofoil technology will attempt to break the world 50-knot sailing record. George Coupe reports.
Source: The Engineer
Date Published: March 27, 2008
Narrowboat holiday in London
Features
Oh, there's nothing like messing around on the water. Forget ducks and lily pads and weeping willows and scenic English villages, though. Think blighted industrial landscapes, waste processing plants, old nags grazing by the side of the canal and men with pit bulls loitering, suspiciously. Just south of Enfield, in a prettily painted narrowboat called Jessie, moving along at a stately four miles per hour, we glide gently into the kind of landscape that looks like you might find Sigourney Weaver armed with a flame thrower: there are pylons on one side, the M25 just ahead, darkened underpasses providing the ideal cover in which to take crack cocaine, and beyond, delights still to come, Edmonton and Tottenham.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: October 03, 2006
20 fabulous house boats
Features
City self-catering
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 20, 2008
Vegetable oil to power Broads holiday boats
Features
Forty holiday cruise boats on the Norfolk Broads are to be fitted with engines run on vegetable oil fuel in an experiment to test the efficiency and value of "green power".
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 04, 2007
Green travel: Around the world - on trains, buses and boats
Features
Karin Andreasson makes the long trip to Thailand
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: November 06, 2006
Tyco sells M/A-COM for $425m
News
Tyco Electronics has entered into an agreement to sell M/A-COM, its radio frequency components and subsystem business to Cobham Defense Electronic Systems, a subsidiary of Cobham, for $425m in cash.
Source: The Engineer
Date Published: May 16, 2008
Turned out nice again
Features
Oceans are a major influence on Earth's climate, acting like giant rechargeable batteries - storing heat from the sun and then releasing it again slowly. Continents are the opposite, warming and cooling quickly in response to the temperature of the air. This explains why continental interiors have such different climates to maritime regions.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 28, 2008
Dithering governments blamed for biofuel tanker shortage
Features
Britain is facing a big shortage of ships for carrying biofuels unless politicians give clear guidelines about the future of renewable fuels, a leading maritime organisation warned last night.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 24, 2008
A very cold war indeed
Features
To reach the village of Tuktoyaktuk, in the extreme north of Canada's Northwest Territories, you first fly to Inuvik, a town of 4,000 people inside the Arctic Circle that is, from the point of view of most Canadians, ridiculously far north in the first place. Then you drive north. You can do this only in winter, because about a mile outside Inuvik the road comes to an end; the rest of the journey is on a frozen river, and then, after a while, on the frozen Arctic Ocean itself. (In summer, when the sea melts, Tuktoyaktuk is accessible only by boat or turbo-prop plane.)
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 05, 2008
No more gobies
News
University of Michigan researchers are investigating a new design for cargo ships that would eliminate ballast tanks.
Source: The Engineer
Date Published: April 02, 2008
Eyes in for Nimrod
News
RAF pilots are using Thales' new training simulators to prepare for the delivery of the updated MR2 Nimrod aircraft in 2010.
Source: The Engineer
Date Published: March 27, 2008
Getting the measure of waves
News
Wave energy converters could be made more efficient with a device that measures the size of each wave approaching the converter.
Source: The Engineer
Date Published: March 11, 2008
