Care and feeding of your small thruster

Miscellaneous Musings from Don MacPherson, Technical Director Ocean Tech Expo is a small conference and expo for the submersible community. It was held last week in Newport, RI. Most of the major players in ROV and AUV vehicles were exhibiting, and I was very pleased to see many of our HydroComp thruster design clients exhibiting [...]

Detailed propeller design for naval architects

Miscellaneous Musings from Don MacPherson, Technical Director It has been a few months since our PROPS2010 Bootcamp, and we have used the time to reflect on the class, our participants, and propeller design in general. First and foremost, we are grateful to our participants for the time that they spent with us away from family [...]

HydroComp PROPS2010 Bootcamp!

From the Managing Director You’ve asked for it, we’ve created it. HydroComp is hosting an unique two-day comprehensive workshop in Durham, New Hampshire, USA on April 29th and 30th. PROPS2010 Bootcamp is an intensive professional development workshop on marine propeller design and analysis. In today’s competitive business environment where it is all about "green" efficiency, [...]

Onboard speed-power management – a "feel good" solution?

Miscellaneous Musings from the Technical Director Here’s my contention: onboard speed-power management (SPM) systems are nothing more than a “feel-good” solution for a problem that doesn’t exist. OK, now that I have that out of the way, let me fill in some details… A problem that doesn’t exist? What is a problem? Dictionaries define it [...]

Time trial racing – deep water versus shallow water

Miscellaneous Musings from the Technical Director I received an interesting email yesterday, and I thought I would share my reply with our blog readers. It comes from a speed record holder “kite surfer”. In the world of speed sailing, kite surfers can sail in very shallow water (down to less than 10 cm), which gives [...]

New "Marine Performance Technology Exchange" posted

You can download our latest issue of the Marine Performance Technology Exchange from the Knowledge Library on our web site. The principal article is about the “Contribution of a nozzle in ducted propeller performance”. Just look for the November 2008 issue.