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Surviving the Arctic: Polar Class Icebreakers

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I’m amazed by the challenges pitted against a Polar class icebreaker. What does it take for a ship to survive in the harshest regions of our planet?
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How to Design a Ship

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How to design a ship? How to go from a blank sheet of paper to a sensible design for a ship, when you have nothing to start with? So here are my secrets revealed.
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Three Neat Tricks with Marine Cranes

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Three neat things you didn’t know about marine cranes! Every now and then, it’s fun to step back and appreciate the innovation that allowed us to adapt industrial cranes to the marine environment.
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Underway Replenishment

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It’s difficult to see where systems integration adds value to ship design. So I want to show how none of this is possible without systems integration.
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How to Make a Boat Propeller

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I love to learn how industrial equipment gets created.  Boat propellers are especially interesting.  The emphasis is on mass production.  See how we crank out hundreds of fine detailed propellers.
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Propellers By the Numbers: Propeller Dimensions

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You need context to understand propeller terminology: normal ranges and implications of each term.
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Understanding Steering Gear in Ships