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		<title>Blind faith: engineers cannot afford it</title>
		<link>http://hydrocompmusings.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/blind-faith-engineers-cannot-afford-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Musings from the Technical Director
Let me share a story from my first technical internship when I was in high school back in the 1970s. I was working in the engineering department of a pump company. Our analytical tools were simple calculators &#8211; and a new &#8220;computer&#8221;, with keyboard, screen, and printer.
Only one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hydrocompmusings.wordpress.com&blog=4128030&post=109&subd=hydrocompmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Onboard speed-power management &#8211; a &quot;feel good&quot; solution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Musings from the Technical Director
Here&#8217;s my contention:
onboard speed-power management (SPM) systems are nothing more than a &#8220;feel-good&#8221; solution for a problem that doesn&#8217;t exist. 
OK, now that I have that out of the way, let me fill in some details&#8230;
A problem that doesn&#8217;t exist?
What is a problem? Dictionaries define it as &#8220;a question proposed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hydrocompmusings.wordpress.com&blog=4128030&post=105&subd=hydrocompmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time trial racing &#8211; deep water versus shallow water</title>
		<link>http://hydrocompmusings.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/time-trial-racing-deep-water-versus-shallow-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;kite surfer&#8221;.

In the world of speed sailing, kite surfers can sail in very shallow water (down to less than 10 cm), which gives us very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hydrocompmusings.wordpress.com&blog=4128030&post=104&subd=hydrocompmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1-800-IGNORE-ME</title>
		<link>http://hydrocompmusings.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/1-800-ignore-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Musings from the Technical Director
When we get into work each morning, one of our first tasks is to check voice mail for the hours that the office has been closed. I must say that I am increasingly frustrated by the rapid and clipped messages that are often left for us.
My rule for such things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hydrocompmusings.wordpress.com&blog=4128030&post=98&subd=hydrocompmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dog sledding as a model for team management</title>
		<link>http://hydrocompmusings.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/dog-sledding-as-a-model-for-team-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Musings from the Technical Director
I am not about to cast myself as a business &#8220;self-help&#8221; guru. Those guys crack me up. If they had the business savvy to be successful, why are they flogging &#8220;how-to-succeed-in-business&#8221; books and audio tapes. They are good at selling books and tapes, but I&#8217;m not sure how much one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hydrocompmusings.wordpress.com&blog=4128030&post=97&subd=hydrocompmusings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New &quot;Marine Performance Technology Exchange&quot; posted</title>
		<link>http://hydrocompmusings.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/contributions-of-the-nozzle-in-ducted-propeller-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HydroComp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Contribution of a nozzle in ducted propeller performance&#8221;. Just look for the November 2008 issue.
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