In my commitment to STEMPHLA (the combination of STEM plus Philosophy, History, Language and Arts) in engineering, I have blogged on non-fiction books that messed with my head, great nautical books, and my Literature PhD thesis proposal on maritime and the modern novel. However, books don’t have to be maritime non-fiction to leave a lasting… Read more »

  This story is about 12M design, but it starts with a simple recent strength discussion.  We were looking into the strength of a bollard and lifted some bollard moment strength versus bollard diameter data from the US Navy Towing manual. To help the discussion, one of our engineers prepared a little spreadsheet and added… Read more »

  Of all the recreational thrills one can seek, iceboating is No. 1 with me. It is an elusive thrill, since I only iceboat locally and global warming is not helping. I am a member of our local iceboat club, but I will admit that I am not tightly dialed in with the real experts… Read more »

  While airline travel is nowhere near as efficient as it used to be, I still often manage to travel to a Westcoast assignment pretty much in one day. This works particularly well for jobs in San Francisco or Oakland. I grab the earliest flight from Newark and by mid morning I am in the… Read more »

  I was called out on a survey. Waiting for the vessel to come alongside some snow started to fall and it provided an interesting atmosphere for some nice moody maritime pictures. Some people like 9 to 5 and others cannot deal with the same schedule every day. I like the mix of the two… Read more »