Tag: boats

Sailing, sailing

Although I’ve rarely sailed, I’ve been in love with the idea of sailing ever since I was a kid and devoured–several times over–the Swallows and Amazons books by Arthur Ransome. (Used my own money to order them all the way from England–that’s how much I loved them.) Sailboats are expensive and awkward things to own …

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The Segway of the seas…

My eye continues to be caught by unique above-and-below-water vehicles thanks to the watery setting of my new novel Marseguro (currently undergoing revision). This one looks like fun: As Sci-Fi Tech explains it: The SeaBob essentially works as a self-propelling riding vehicle and is roughly akin to a jetski. You grab hold of two “controlgrips” …

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Here’s something you don’t see everyday…

…but when you do see it, you think, “Cool!” It’s a collection of 19th century shipping posters. I like this one because of the name of the ship (natch). (Via Drawn.)

Now you can buy your own submarine

It’s amazing how stories like this leap out at me since I wrote a novel set on an ocean world: The world’s first personal submarines have been launched with a price tag of £65,000. Dutch designers claim the subs will make owners feel like they are “flying through the water”. The one-seater version is 9ft …

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Who needs a helicopter…

…when you could have a boat like this? Another cool surface vessel I shoulda put in my new ocean-world SF story.

Here’s something I wish I had put in the new book:

The Proteus “spider-like go-fast boat.”

Boats

Boats fascinate me. I think it’s because some of my favorite books as a kid were the Swallows and Amazons novels by Arthur Ransome, which are full of boats. So, “Jibbooms and bobstays!”, I said to myself, “Why not write about them?” The one characteristic you really, really want in a boat is the ability …

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