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SME universe | The multi-fishing boat that will make a difference
Engineers Hubert Simard and Jean-Nil Poirier Morissette, from the naval architecture firm Navanex, spent ten days in the North Atlantic in January 2023 as crew on a fishing vessel of their design, in order to fully immerse themselves in life on board. “We had a good understanding of how fishermen fish,” says Hubert Simard, project manager at Navanex, “but we decided to do a field experiment to really understand and feel it. They felt. Ten days of labor and Gravol. Winds of 55 knots. Swells up to 7 meters. And they learned. A lot. “It took us a couple of days to get over it, but after that we knew what we were talking about. >>click to read<< 16:40