Freedom Ship Specifications: LOA: 4,500′ / 1371.6m * Beam: 750′ / 228.6m * Height: 350′ / 106.68m * Structural Engineer: Paul Kidwell * Displacement: 3 million Tons * Propulsion: Electric Motors on Pods, 30,000 Horsepower Per Pod (10 Knots Max Speed) * Where Built: Bay of Trujillo, Honduras? * Build Cost: $400.00 per square feet? …
The year was 1892, Scottish designer George Lennox Watson received a commission from Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales for a sailing yacht. He designed His Royal Highness’ Yacht Britannia to the “Length And Sail Area Rule” as a First Class cutter and had her built alongside his America’s Cup challenger Valkyrie II at the …
In 1955 from a weaving facility in an old building behind Maddie’s Sail Loft in Marblehead, “Ted” and his father Stedman grew the new venture into a global power house. Hood Sailmakers were the first loft to weave there own sailcloth, revolutionizing the process, and creating sails of unmatched quality, durability, and performance. All the …
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Delivering chocolate pollution free onboard “Tres Hombres” and engineless square-rigged Brigantine 32 meter ship. The first company to ever deliver sustainably a mass amount of chocolate bars across the ocean from the tropics to Europe. Just one, of the incredibly novel ideas from creator “Mott Green” who tragically passed away after he was electrocuted while …
The Irish government awarded the Chieftains the honorary title of ‘Ireland’s Musical Ambassadors’ in 1989 The Chieftains are a traditional Irish band formed in Dublin in November 1962, by Paddy Moloney, Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy.