Crabs

Had the distinct honor of spending six hours at sea with the crew of the FV North American yesterday. http://fvnorthamerican.com The assignment was to capture media to create a case study of the crew looking for the "sweet spot" in fuel consumption as a result of using FloScan instrumentation. http://www.floscan.com

You will be hearing more about FloScan in the upcoming months as they are the sister company to RacerMate, makers and manufacturers of CompuTrainer and their line of products, most notably, Real Course Videos (RCV). Dots all connected?

I was very impressed with Captain Sten Skaar and his crew, including the North American patriarch Erling Skaar, Deck-boss and engineer John Skaar and deck hand Henry. I was the videographer on board for the six hour sea-trial with FloScan sales manager Joe Dydasco. Here are some photos, with the two minute video spot to hit the blogsphere sometime next week, Good Lord willin and the boat don't capsize. I hope I can put a slightly different spin on the magnificent job the The Discovery Channel has already done with these guys. You can spend all day on YouTube watching their heroic efforts on The Deadliest Catch in the line of duty (feed the planet). We (FloScan) have already helped by saving the North American 20% on the coast of diesel fuel as a direct result of finding the elusive spot of sweetness, defined as that precise point at the intersection of efficient RPMs and fossil fuel consumption, thereby producing speed, power, endurance and economy of motion. YO ATHLETES, HEARD THIS BEFORE????? Remember when I suggested that everything was (and is) connected?

Erling, Sten and John are working on a project that uses the power output from the huge Cat engines to power all their on-board electrical requirements, thereby making the expensive need for a back up motor or generator, moot. It is green, it is clean and is working in perfect harmony with the FloScan products by reducing fuel use and lowering carbon emissions. And that, to me, tastes better than King Crab. Here is but one of the hundreds of clips ready for you on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIpEC5yLbTE