ENGINEERING ISSUES for INDFSC

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A sail training vessel for south africa
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• Future of South Africa lies in its youth a
  problem to find employment
• Sea offers careers South Africa should be a
  maritime nation reality is different
• Sail Training vessels used to establish and
  confirm nations as maritime nations
• Job creation and skill transfer during
  construction

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Train officers for the SA Navy, Merchant Navy
and School Leaders Why a sailing vessel? The
policy of the University of South Hampton
nautical school states, Quote A power-driven
craft provides little real training for an embryo
merchant seaman, except for steering or washing
paint. It does not bring him/her any real contact
with the seas as does a sailing craft whose
motive power is governed by the cadets who man
the ship. The school feels that some short period
of training abroad a fast, maneuverable sailing
vessel is of great help in inculcating integrity,
self-reliance and awareness of danger, and that
the sea will always find out shoddy or skimped
work. Unquote Quote A leading article from
the Times on 04 Aug 56 is as true today as it was
the Training in sail gives inestimable benefits
not only to the youths and men/women who are
fortunate enough to have had it, it also gives
any maritime nation which can foster it, strong
advantages in tradition, in character building,
in a more intimate acquaintance with the ways of
the wind and the sea and, therefore in
seamanship. Unquote
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• Other Departments that will benefit
• Foreign Affairs
• Trade and Industry
• Arts and Culture
• Science and Technology
• Tourism

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Quotes from Brazilian Experience 2009 CISNE
BRANCO EURO-AMERICAN Magazine Passadigo Edition
29 Year XXII 2009 page 63. After visiting 17
ports, navigating approximately 18,000 miles,
realizing 108 days at sea and receiving 80,000
visitors/guests, the Cisne Branco returned to Rio
de Janeiro, having attended to many demands of
the Naval Districts, the Naval Attaches and the
accredited Ambassadors of the countries visited.
We were accompanied by the national and
international media, written, spoken and
televised showing the Brazilian Flag, our culture
and traditions, stimulating young people to a
naval career and taking the sea and related
activities to the homes of many that came into
contact with the Cisne Branco, in the hopes of a
greater interest in the sea and the maritime
mentality, to be better explored now and in the
future.
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CISNE BRANCO A MARITIME ODE BookCisne
Branco, ambassador of the beauty and the unique
characteristics of Brazil and its
people.Besides training sailors, she is
informally called the Floating Embassy.A
floating embassy, crossing the oceans which unite
nations.The Cisne Branco links tradition and
modernity. Equipped with modern communication,
refrigeration and affluent treatment systems, the
ship contributes to shorten the distance between
the community and our new Navy, which is
committed to civic, economic and social values as
well as to issues concerning the use of the
sea.The Cisne Branco takes our land to other
counties. It is our Floating Embassy,
representing Brazil our Navy at international
evens, making a statement at the main regional
festivities in our country and abroad.Sailing
ships! Powerful icons which symbolize power,
beauty and harmony.A sailing ship teaches us
about pride and humbleness, strength, bravery and
grace individuality and teamwork. Another
lesson is that no matter how hard the work turns
out to be, fun is always guaranteed.
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SAGRES CONSTRUINDO A LENDA
The Chief of the Portuguese Navy Admiral Ribeiro
de Melo Gomes stated in the foreword to the book
SAGRES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LEGEND It is 8
decades that the name SAGRES formed the way of
thinking and the character of the sailors of our
Navy. During long voyages in an initially adverse
ambience, away from those that they would have
preferred to associate with, away from home
comforts, work the change bit, by bit. This
complex process that results, regularly in people
who without any reserve, generation after
generation, guarantees the continuation of a
Portuguese presence at sea, and the courage to
permit us to affirm ourselves as a Nation. Over
and above the mission of the formation of the
technical and human side of those onboard, there
is the representing of Portugal and the
Portuguese Navy, for which the Sail Training
vessel SAGRES is well equipped, and it is through
this role that she got the elegant name of
Roaming Ambassador.
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• There are two models to choose from to build the
  vessel
• The Dutch Model a city and business combined
• Departments combine to build
• Choice of ship design
• At sea, at sea, at sea, at sea
• Hey! To have my life at sea,
• Exposed to wind and waves.
• Alvaro de Campos Maritime Ode 1915
• Conclusion