On Saturday, we posted about the world’s largest electric ferry. Here is a very different electric watercraft, an all-electric hydrofoil runabout that literally flies above the water.
Candela Speed Boat AB has been referred to by Bloomberg as “Sweden’s Tesla of the Sea.” The firm is developing high-efficiency all-electric hydrofoil speed boats. Built of carbon fiber, once on foils the Candela uses 75% less energy than a conventional planing boat. The 25′ long Candela C-7 requires just 28 horsepower to fly along at 20 knots. The C-7 is capable of cruising for 50 nautical miles at 23 knots on a single charge.
What could be more gloriously incongruous than sailing on a replica 9th-century Viking longship and sipping whisky on a blustery Autumn day in New York harbor? Here is an updated repost: 
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The worst way to determine the position of a previously uncharted seamount is to run into it underwater. That is apparently what happened to the 
“Have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James?” (If you do, it may be from the 
Thousands of dead crabs, lobsters, and fish washed up recently along Teesside beaches on the UK’s North East coast. Waist deep piles of seaweed and dead and dying crustaceans and fish have been reported. Variously described as the “worst case ever seen” and “
On Halloween, Sunday, October 31, at 2:30 Pacific Time (5:30 Eastern TIme), 
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In one of the stranger maritime stories of late, the 
One of the traditions of US icebreakers operating in the Arctic is “ice liberty.” When an icebreaker encounters a thick ice floe, the crew is allowed liberty to get off the vessel to walk about or play games from touch football to hockey. 
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