tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406619839841800067.post883485284244784102..comments2024-03-28T00:14:47.581-07:00Comments on Dawlish Chronicles : Bermuda’s Floating Dry Dock 1869Antoine Vannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490972848447907013noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406619839841800067.post-32304248757852748042015-11-15T05:43:36.217-08:002015-11-15T05:43:36.217-08:00Thanks Suzan - I'm glad you liked this. I was ...Thanks Suzan - I'm glad you liked this. I was enthused about it as you obviously are. Like you I'm an engineer turned novelist myself and was involved in major offshore design adn construction projects in teh earlier part of my career. There's no vocation like Engineering - once qualified, the opportunities are limitless and one has the conviction that any problem, whether physical or organisational or economic, can be addressed and solved systematically. Antoine Vannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00490972848447907013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406619839841800067.post-58795791283026875392015-11-15T05:39:28.936-08:002015-11-15T05:39:28.936-08:00Ann Marie: The technology is still with us. In WW...Ann Marie: The technology is still with us. In WW2 it played a key role in allowing the US Navy to set up very sophisticated ship-repair and maintenance facilities in remote advanced locations in the Pacific. Such facilities are often the true "secret weaoons" that win wars.Antoine Vannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00490972848447907013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406619839841800067.post-1072796165396597872015-11-12T13:49:13.538-08:002015-11-12T13:49:13.538-08:00As a mechanical engineer and romance novelist who ...As a mechanical engineer and romance novelist who set part of a story in Bermuda (admittedly 100 years earlier), this fascinates me! Thank you for enlightening us on where construction materials development sat at the time, as well as how the design had to accommodate warm water fouling. We're so lucky that those artists captured the events so well, enabling us to see them so many years later. Suzan Lauderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770386453085972642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4406619839841800067.post-76024664724827540802015-11-11T21:31:46.828-08:002015-11-11T21:31:46.828-08:00Congratulations on your fourth Dawlish novel comin...Congratulations on your fourth Dawlish novel coming out!<br /><br />Dry dock technology in the 19th century is fascinating. Getting a ship out of the water is no easy task, and I never thought about how they did it before. Thanks for the education!Ann Marie Ackermannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00009277772960744215noreply@blogger.com