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Story of Borneo Princess and Hurricane Irma

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After creating a successful and innovative subsea pipeline company, John Lincoln needed somethingnew to keep him busy, so he decided to pursue another dream he'd always had-to design a catamaranmotor sailor.Borneo, Indonesia would be the place. He had many employees there, spent his downtime in thearea, could build for a fraction of the cost as elsewhere, and had connections to friendly firms that weregood at constructing steel barges. The reader will follow Lincoln and his son as they do a few sketchesand get a quote. Working part time on it when they had few other obligations, it took seven years tocomplete, and with the latest in marine navigation systems, they sailed to Singapore over two weeks.Once there, the catamaran was loaded on a freighter and transported over five months to FortLauderdale, Florida, where it shocked the world.After her construction and travels, her ups and downs, her mechanical struggles, learn her fate asshe faces her fiercest obstacle in Story of Borneo Princess and Hurricane Irma.About the authorJohn Lincoln was a keen scuba diver and spear fisherman. He obtained a degree in Ocean Engineeringin 1974 and worked for other companies in Nova Scotia, Louisiana, Texas, and Australia as a designerand manager of offshore oil and gas and steam power plant facilities. Lincoln started his own businessesin 1994: Lincoln Consulting and OES (Ocean Engineering Systems.) OES through innovation becamethe world's largest and most prolific subsea pipeline trenching company http: //www.oes.net.au/. In 2007, OES expanded into alternate energy systems for automobiles and in 2009, the company starteddesigning and building innovative catamaran motor sailing vessels.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781639370528
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 180
  • Udgivet:
  • 18. maj 2022
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x12x229 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 331 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 17. december 2024
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After creating a successful and innovative subsea pipeline company, John Lincoln needed somethingnew to keep him busy, so he decided to pursue another dream he'd always had-to design a catamaranmotor sailor.Borneo, Indonesia would be the place. He had many employees there, spent his downtime in thearea, could build for a fraction of the cost as elsewhere, and had connections to friendly firms that weregood at constructing steel barges. The reader will follow Lincoln and his son as they do a few sketchesand get a quote. Working part time on it when they had few other obligations, it took seven years tocomplete, and with the latest in marine navigation systems, they sailed to Singapore over two weeks.Once there, the catamaran was loaded on a freighter and transported over five months to FortLauderdale, Florida, where it shocked the world.After her construction and travels, her ups and downs, her mechanical struggles, learn her fate asshe faces her fiercest obstacle in Story of Borneo Princess and Hurricane Irma.About the authorJohn Lincoln was a keen scuba diver and spear fisherman. He obtained a degree in Ocean Engineeringin 1974 and worked for other companies in Nova Scotia, Louisiana, Texas, and Australia as a designerand manager of offshore oil and gas and steam power plant facilities. Lincoln started his own businessesin 1994: Lincoln Consulting and OES (Ocean Engineering Systems.) OES through innovation becamethe world's largest and most prolific subsea pipeline trenching company http: //www.oes.net.au/. In 2007, OES expanded into alternate energy systems for automobiles and in 2009, the company starteddesigning and building innovative catamaran motor sailing vessels.

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