[PCW] Maine Cat/Glacier Bay was Perry

[Mark]

Ranny, Can you provide any more details?  

My memory from the early 2007 test was that the LCD control panel was pretty crude and there were some motor over heating issues, but Dick was still working on some underbody cavitation issues, so it's not clear to me how much of the performance issues were with the Glacier Bay set up vs a first generation hull prototype.  As Glacier Bay seems to be working with a lot of manufacturers and had nice injection of capital, I hope they are making progress.

By the reports of the latest test it seems that Maine Cat has the underbody dialed in (no reports on vibration across the range though).  I thought the there was a report of the first order being for the hybrid version, so am curious if they'll go back and try the diesel electric set up.


--- On Fri, 12/21/07, rannyreynolds at comcast.net <rannyreynolds at comcast.net> wrote:
> Anyone considering this should have a talk with Maine Cat. 
> They had a pretty bad test with Glacier Bay.  Still, it is a
> technology that seems almost mature.
> 
> Ranny Reynolds