Sean Seamour III
Originally created on April 15 2008
The Green Boat Adventure is an effort to monitor and analyze new and emerging technologies important to bettering our environment, and to help mariners and sailors who aspire to go green choose and implement the appropriate solutions
Genesis
It all started after the loss of our Sean Seamour II between Cape Hatteras and Bermuda last May 7th, I was in quandary to define what Sean Seamour III should be. My wife Mayke had long insisted that we should have a silent boat (no diesel engine to smell or hear) and a catamaran for it offers a stable platform. I had long insisted that we would never have a boat that could not right itself from a 180°. After the events of May 7th Final Log, moving to a Catamaran is no longer a debate, on the other hand, silent clean propulsion remains both her desire and my curiosity.
Living on the Mediterranean where wind is either overly abundant or non existent (sailing to Corsica is often motoring there), we opted for a Nauticat 33 motorsailor. A stable platform with a deep keel, decent sailing performance with its extended ketch rig, foremost, a great platform to experiment its transformation into a diesel-electric hybrid as a first step before, we hope a fuel cell electric drive as these energy generation technologies mature. Through this blog we would like to share our ideas, trials and tribulations, as well as create an interactive repository of knowledge and references on the state of the art and where it may be going. Please don’t hesitate to share and contribute, we are all breaking ground.
In the months ahead we will be looking at all the facets of going green. This means breaking down the technology blocks constitutive of a green system, looking at who and what is present and or emerging. We will study the performance and suitability for our project. We are also keeping a sharp eye on new technologies in related areas in an effort to see when and if technology migration, or perhaps we should use the term crossover, may come to benefit green boat adventures where ever they may be.
The Greening of Sean Seamour III is a long term project we would like to share with a broad community, we would like our Nauticat to be a test bed for maturing technologies that would enable a future phase-out of fossil fuels. JP and his crew hopes that players from all horizons will come and join the adventure – manufacturers and inventors with innovative ideas, system integrator, yards and craftsmen – in essence mariners from around the world who seek to make the sea a greener place to be.
We would like to see our GreenBoat project go bi-lingual English and French – for those interested in collaborating with us and in helping to create the French language mirror please contact us.
Français: Nous souhaitons que le projet BateauVert soit bilingue Français – Anglais, si vous êtes intéressé à collaborer avec nous et contribuer à créer l’interface en Français merci de nous contacter.
| Nov 14 |
Our challenge has arrived. 30 years old in a few days, neglected for three years in the Cherbourg harbor of northern France, she will rejuvenate in the Mediterranean sun.
Sean Seamour III unloading
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