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Educational Passages provides an unique platform whose fiber-glass custom hull, deck, and mast was designed with assistance from an experienced naval architect. During our initial sea trials in 2008, off the northeast cost of North America, one of our prototype boats O-Sole-Me-O, sailed 1,993 miles in 78 day. During this time, this boat reached speeds of up to five miles per hour and sailed over 9-foot waves in the notoriously treacherous north Atlantic. (read more about our boats' first attempt at a trans-Atlantic crossing). EP 56. Below are the first computer assisted design pictures of our new hull design for 2010 from Mark Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald Marine Architecture, Inc in Camden, ME
The Mid-Coast School of Technology Marine Technology Program, under the instruction of Richard Irving, will take Mark’s drawing and produce up to 10 boats. Educational Passages will pay the initial cost of materials for these new boats that will participate in our 2010 Program-- contact Richard Baldwin for additional information. .Passages 56. This boat served as the platform for the 2009 Atlantic Passages and was designed to do two things; 1) to sail directly downwind month after month without any outside assistance and , 2) be capable of crossing the worlds oceans. All Passages 56 boats are cast from a hand molded hull "plug" shown below at Holland's Boat Shop in Belfast, ME, where the master mold was formed.
Hull #1 as she emerges from the master mold on March 9th, 2009, at the Mid-Coast School of Technology in Rockland, Maine
With poly-foam floatation, all Passages 56 boats are strong and unsinkable. All of our new boats have 17 pounds of lead ballast and a severely swept back fin to keep them from getting fouled in seaweed. The Passages 56 design also makes for a fast, stable, and self-righting boat capable of withstanding the most severe conditions of the North Atlantic. The simple self-tending sail design has only one moving part to make the Passages 56 rig extremely reliable. Equipped with a GPS transponder, each Passages 56 can be tracked on a frequent basis, and if stranded local authorities may be alerted with the possibility of recovery. 2008 Prototypes. After sailing for 78 days, our prototype, O-Sole-Me-O, floundered on an uninhabited island, and her onboard GPS transponder allowed a local fisherman to recover her after we notified local authorities in Canada (read more about O-Sole-Me-O here). |
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