SL7expo

Modern commercial Maritime is underappreciated by the general public and our government. It receives very little despite the fact that it is a core industry for US economic survival and, to boot, provides access to the middle class for anybody who is interested in joining an industry that is screaming for young talent. A number of maritime brothers and sisters in arms are pressing for the use of an SL-7 T-AKR as a Smithsonian-level exposition center that will promote the benefits of maritime.

This newsletter provides an introduction to this effort. Join us if you also feel the urge to bring commercial maritime to the front burner. Provide John Riddle at jriddle@comcast.net with your contact information and become a follower of SL7expo at LinkedIn, where we are posting the latest developments.

Great Ships and The Ship Designer’s Curse

This is a rational assessment US Major museum ships. It makes mention of the SL-7’s but does not realize that we don’t need a museum. We need a way to explain today’s maritime.

This is the first shot across the bow with regard to an SL-7 exposition center.

For further details including funding approaches and reasons for government support follow the link to Rik’s powerpoint presentation.

The original designer of the SL-7, John Boylston is still alive. In 2010 he provided this riveting description of the SL-7 design and construction. It eerily ties in to the point I was making in the first article in this newsletter. Ship engineers as the unheralded creators of technical magic.

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