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Cesar Harada (28) is an French-Japanese inventor and entrepreneur.
Cesar invented a ground-breaking sailing technology, a boat that changes shape, “Protei”. Originally developed to clean up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Protei is an Open Hardware project now developed by an international community of scientists, engineers and designers for many other applications such as nuclear radiation sensing off Japan, plastic sensing in the Pacific garbage patch, red tide studies in Mexico and much more.
Cesar is also the general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station. Former Project leader at MIT, Cesar teaches Masters in Design & Environment at Goldsmiths University in London. Cesar graduated in 2009 from the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Arts in London, his collaborative project Open_Sailing received the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for the [NEXT IDEA].

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Protei-001

Yesterday went testing Protei-001 on Lake Pontchartrain (New Orleans LA). 
What's so special for Protei-001? It is a Front-Steering Remote Control Sailing Boat  (the rudder is right a the front of the boat).
First tested without a tail, and with the tail (about 4 meters). Without the tail, the maneuverability is amazing ; with the tail, the control is pretty good, much better than  with a classical back rudder sailing boat. The aim is to make a powerfull yet simple semi-autonomous sailing boat with a high pulling capacity - in the case of Protei it is a long oil-absorbing tail that cleans an oil spill.

Also on youtube 

http://protei.org
by Open_Sailing + Random Walks
Cesar Harada + Sey Min

Thanks to : 
LA Bucket Brigade : labucketbrigade.org/
Suzette Toledano Becker : suzettebecker.com/
V2_ : v2.nl/

Based on the T37 : modelsailboat.com/

Protei-001 is on the second line of this diagram, Protei-002 (third line) is an all articulated boat, to be tested very soon!

More pictures :)

This is the technical drawing of Protei-002, with the exact same proportions of Protei-001, but not only front-steering : the whole boat can curve :
testing Protei-002 very very soon! Stay tuned ~

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