Author: Russ

Three French Skippers Defeated!

Vendee Globe 2008 – disaster strikes French entrants

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ShipPlotter Fanatics are all over the UK :-)

If you have read up on AIS including posts here on this blog you may recall that AIS uses very short bursts of high speed…

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Live AIS data for the English Channel..

Earlier this year I commended Martin Waller in East Anglia for his live AIS site – well now we have a similar site based right…

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Hybrid has got to be the “way forward”…

If you have read my blog recently then you will also realise that the question of the rising cost of diesel fuel has also been…

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Will you be filling your tank at the chip shop?

The process of converting vegetable oil into fuel is called Transesterification. Transesterification of a vegetable oil was conducted as early as 1853 by scientists E….

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