Matthew Collette

@a2navarc.bsky.social

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Naval architect turned educator

Black and white photo of the Angel of the North sculpture set as a silhouette against the mostly clear sky. The sun is right behind one of the wings, making it hard to see anything other than the outline of the steel sculpture.
A 3-bulb Pryne-brand infrared bathroom ceiling fixture in polished chrome housing about 16" in diameter. Two of the three dark red bulbs are on, which is plenty. Based on the age of the house, I'd guess this is from the 1950s-1960s. It's huge and nicely warming and vaguely space-aged.
Leaf patterned chandelier hanging from a circular, vaguely Central American themed gold round ceiling mosaic on a light blue background.
Picture of the front of the book Borderlines by Lewis Baston. It has a red title block over a picture of an abandoned border hut
Meme of "it might work for us" with a man and a women talking: Panel 1: "What if we tried to frigate again by adopting a different parent design" Panel 2: "Well did it work for those people" Panel 3: "No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but" Panel 4: "but it might work for us"
PRADS attendees in the Jack Roth Stadium Club talking over food
Graph showing annual percentage change of ton of maritime transport and ton*miles. Lines fairly closely follow each other from 2002 until 2022, when they separated with 2024 showing 5.9% growth in ton-miles with only a 2.2% growth in tons.
The classic 1960s/1970s Ship Structure Committee logo, with a highly stylized "s" "s" "c" letters in the form of a wave, with the full name next to the wave.
B+W photo of an interwar-era tanker in drydock at Newport News. Name is Fenris, and homeport is Oslo, visible on the stern. The ship has a large Norwegian flag and its name painted under the bridge. The ship was torpedoed in the Pacific in 1944, but survived, lost to fire after the war. No date or other information on this photo, but looks to be before these events.
Image of a whaleback vessel, with a forward and aft "turret" superstructures on top of an otherwise gently rounded deck with limited freeboard, transiting the Poe locks. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaleback#/media/File:Poe_Lock_Whaleback_2.jpg
Photo shows a low-profile vessel, floating at a relatively high draft, mounted on the towing carriage of the U of M model tank. The vessel is painted yellow with a black grid to help with photo measurements.
A blue t-shirt with the USNI logo surrounded by "Proceeding Author" on the upper front left
Bernie Sanders - US politician - meme quote "I am once again asking you to remember that reducing ship design to a single metric leads to unwanted and unanticipated side effects"
The vessel American Mariner in the Soo Locks early morning on Jan 16th. A partially ice-covered lake carrier in a lock with plenty of floating ice under a night sky.
Caterpillar paper slide chart for sizing propellers with booklet instructions. Copyright is 1962.
Inland lake ferry "Leisure Lady" running to Fyre Island in Maine, USA. A simple box barge ferry with a one-person pilothouse and 3 cars on it.
A marine engineer is climbing out of a tiny space between a machine and the hull structure. It is not clear how he could possibly fit into the space or if he will make it out; whoever placed the machine in this location did not consider that someone would need to access the outboard side for maintenance.
A hydroponic vegetable grower looking like a large cabinet with two levels of plants growing. From original press release -(courtesy: Tokei Kaiun)
Graphic from nhc.noaa.gov showing a depression, a tropical storm, and two potential future storms in the tropics of the Atlantic Ocean
A Blue Heron takes flight over Mill Pond Park in Saline, Michigan, with its reflection shown on the water.
French Research Vessel Pourquoi Pas pier-side in the San Diego sunshine in March 2024
Champak flower cluster in front of blurred palm trees
Rudbeckia flowers...
Twilight over coastal rocks and water at the edge of the Arabian Sea
Dragonfly looking over pond
Two humpback whales diving