After an awesome 4 days of Tall Ships in Charleston’s harbor, if you still can’t get enough of these majestic vessels, you can take a ride on local favorite, The Schooner Pride, this Saturday, July 4th.
The Schooner Pride will be departing from the Aquarium Wharf at 360 Concord Street – to the left of the S.C. Aquarium – on July 4th at 7:00 PM and returning at 9:00. If the Patriot’s Point fireworks haven’t started yet, guests will be able to stay on board and watch from the dock – about the best seat you can get for this amazing show!
Tickets are only $42 per person and reservations are strongly recommended. They only have 49 seats available, and like always, it will be sold out!
May 27, 2009
All-Electric, Zero-Emission 50 MPH Jetski!
Barrett Taylor has a slogan on his ECO Jet Ski website, to “RIDE WHERE NO ONE ELSE CAN” – I don’t exactly understand why they claim that, except for the fact that you could ’sneak’ up on somebody with one of these things, but whatever the reason, 50 MPH with no emissions or noise sounds pretty awesome to me!
In this short video, you can hear the still-not-for-sale ECO Jet Ski a little bit, but it gives a good idea of the sound level and acceleration you can expect to get from an all-electric jetski.
You can also read how noxious jetski fumes overwhelmed the founder and other Ironman swimmers – causing Barret to look into the cleaner technology – on his ECO Watercraft website. Enjoy!
May 19, 2009
Cruise ship pulling into Shem Creek
NO, it’s not an April Fool’s joke in the middle of May, but thanks to PlanetInAction (via gearthblog), this amazing FREE Ship Simulator game lets you take the helm of several kinds of ships, including:
- an airship,
- a fuel ship,
- a container ship, and
- the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship!
What’s really amazing is the realism and visual & sound effects, which are based on Google Earth’s new visualization platform. It looks like the Charleston cruise ship business we’re hearing may move to Mt. Pleasant is now one step closer – something that would fit in great for Shem Creek Park patrons (if the water were deep enough of course) – people could just hang out in the park against the ocean and jump on their cruise ship to wherever when it leaves!
March 19, 2009
The world’s first electric hybrid sports boat
Chris Anthony, co-founder of the company that produces the Aptera 2e electric car, says their Epic Wakeboats 23E burns 50% less fuel and emits 1/2 as much CO2 as a typical wakeboard boat during a four-hour trip on the water.
The 22′ is a series hybrid that uses a small gasoline engine to drive a generator which keeps the lithium-ion batteries going as they empty out – similar to what’s in a Chevrolet Volt. The batteries are mounted along the centerline of the boat, and can be recharged from a common 110/220 volt wall socket.
The boat is expected to cost around $150,000 come July, but they hope to produce a $70,000 model by 2012.
