BEYOND THE HORIZON
Maritime and Nautical News
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BEYOND THE HORIZON
1 September 2023 #15 INLAND WATERWAYS Blakely BoatWorks in Mobile, Alabama, is building a new Tier 4 Z-drive tugboat for Crescent Towing. Tier 4 engines are the preeminent environmentally safe motors for non-road machinery that meet all the current EPA standards, and hopefully, future regulations. Like a bow thruster, the Z-drive is a propulsion unit capable…
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#13 1 August 2023 MEA CULPA I apologize to many of my loyal readers who suddenly could not get my blog. Due to a technical error (read that: I messed up), the rantings and ravings were unavailable on many browsers. Exactly how this happened is a good question, but I think it is solved. Thanks…
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15 July 2023. #12 GRAY FLEET Huntington Ingles turned the new destroyer, JACK H LUCAS (DDG-125), over to the Navy after she completed her trials in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the first of the new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers that comes with the newest edition of the Aegis Combat systems that include an AN-SPY…
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1-July-2023 #11 ENVIRONMENT In an interesting tidbit of environmental news, during one of the myriad round-the-world sailing races, a boat teamed up with scientists testing water samples all over the globe, especially the Southern Seas around Antarctica. Sadly, each and every test tube of water showed microplastics. As mentioned in an earlier blog, Minnesota issued a…
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SPECIAL EDITION July 2023 #10 Due to an extraordinary amount of news, I decided to add a Middle of the Month blog. Another will be posted 1 July 2023. CONTEST A few months ago, I held a contest for a book; but in the fashion of the World’s Worst Sailor, I forgot to mention the…
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BEYOND THE HORIZON S.D. “Doc” Regan June 2023 # 10 ENVIRONMENT Supreme Beef, the company that desires to have an 11,600 cattle farm along Bloody Run Creek, a protected trout stream, lost a battle in court but a win in the legislature. The courts sent back a decision on the farm to the DNR that has been…
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S.D. “Doc” ReganMay 2023 #8 BEYOND THE HORIZON INLAND WATERWAYS The Congressional internecine war over the definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) remains heated between the Democrats and the Republicans as politicians take their stances over what the government should have or should not have jurisdiction. The Democrats want an expanded classification to include streams,…
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BEYOND THE HORIZON APRIL 2023 #7 BOAT NEWS The wealthy have decided that they not only want to race with carbon fiber boats that merely have a foil that changes the wingspan of the boat to create greater lift, and a canting keel, but they wanted something for their semi-cruise yachts, hence, the Maxis. These…
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March 2023. #6 By Doc Regan CONTEST !! Send your name and address to [email protected]. Put “CONTEST” in the subject line. PRIZE: “ The Dinghy Cruising Companion” by Roger Barnes. The winner will be selected at random. I am trying to sell some ads and need some data to make my pitch. Your names and addresses will…