me in the bow storage compartment turned guest room I had a great idea the other day while on a hike up Big Mountain. It occurred to me that WiTHiN is easily big enough to hold TWO people – one could sit in the cockpit and pedal while the other relaxes in the cabin spotting […]
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WiTHiN upside down on a new stand. The bleeder protective covering has now been removed from the hull bottom As far as big jobs go for right now, all that is left is building the drive leg / keel bay, carbon taping the exterior seems, and joining the cabin top. Paint & body work, sealing […]
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I’ve been posting fewer blogs showing progress of the human powered expedition boat WiTHiN, not because we haven’t been making progress, but the progress isn’t visually as impressive as it once was when we were making the big parts. Now it’s small things that take a lot of time. For example, it took a couple […]
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I presented my keynote speech twice to two different groups over the last month – a group of graduating grade 9 students with faces of stone and a local Toast Masters group for their year end luncheon who seemed fascinated and engaged. Boy, life as a motivational speaker really keeps the ego in check! After […]
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“No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.” ~ Charles Kettering There was a storm and I got off my ship. It was my second dreaded DNF (did not finish) in my athletic career – the first was the 24 hour human powered distance record […]
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Here is a nifty little animation I whipped up showing the computer model of WiTHiN blending into the actual boat in my shop. And the big news for the week is the drive leg is here! MitrPak built it and they did an awesome job! The ‘T’ gear box at the top has a Shimano […]
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If you don’t live here (Calgary), I am sorry and I don’t mean to rub this in your face or anything, but check out the pictures from my Saturday training run with my buddy Bryon. Bryon Howard and me at the 9100 feet summit of Mount Allen in Kananaskis It has been a long-time goal […]
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We got the seat panels inserted into the expedition boat and just as a double check, I placed my recumbent seat onto the carbon seat panel and used the cranks and drive from Critical Power 2 to check where the pedals will be. It all fit perfectly. We also got the port light (windows) holes […]
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The Northface Endurance Challenge Gortex 50 mile ultramarathon race report To say I was having a good day would be the understatement of the year. I was on fire and after 9 hours I was flying through the mountainous course feeling WAY too good. Something bad just HAD to happen… My first triathlon coach gave […]
Read More...Peace, rainbows, a mean machine, and a shiny new logo! Peace and rainbows. man. We have the lower hull almost totally assembled now, so for fun, we placed the cabin on, and the other top deck panels. It’s really starting to come together! Ken is doing a fantastic job and we are progressing nicely – […]
Read More...The lower hull jig is finished and we have the first panel in! First, my training progress for the Northface Endurance Challenge Gortex 50 mile run June 6: My last long run weekend consisted of a 6 hour run on Saturday followed by a 3 hour run on Sunday. Both went very well and my […]
Read More...Well, we have the cabin top assembled! This is pretty cool because it’s the first thing we’ve made that actually looks like Ocean WiTHiN! We’re also pretty psyched to see that Stuart Bloomfields design magic works like a charm. After building the cabin top jig and fitting the 3 cabin top carbon panels into position, […]
Read More...We have completed all but two panels and we realized that we had miscalculated the amount of epoxy resin we were going through. The raw Corecell panels were soaking up way more epoxy that we had originally expected, so I placed an order for more MAS brand epoxy from Noahs in Montreal and we have […]
Read More...Building Ocean WiTHiN – a human powered ocean crossing boat My last blog post called “how it’s done” was a step by step attempt to show you how we are building Ocean WiTHiN and it was received with a bit of confusion. I realized that I could do a much better job, so after four […]
Read More...Ken and I are now like a well oiled machine. A carbon sandwich panel making machine. Yesterday we finished side B of our first panel containing seat parts, and BOTH sides of the next panel which consists of the bulkheads. We have a pretty good system down, and so far the panels are coming out […]
Read More...I seem to blast through iPods as fast as I blow through sneakers. Last summer during training for the 24 hour human powered boat record I purchased a totally water proof enclosure for my iPod from OtterBox because my previous iPod got wet and eventually died. I was sick of buying new iPods so I […]
Read More...After only 2 days into my Peru trip, I got a text from Ken with the bad news that we got kicked out of the hanger that my friend Steve so kindly offered to us as to build the new ocean crossing human powered boat – Ocean WiTHiN. I guess the owner of the Citation […]
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Backroads Peru Trekking Trip Helen and I just got back from a 9 day, lodge to lodge trekking trip in Peru from Cusco to Machupicchu ( Machu Picchu ). It was a seriously incredible experience. We stayed in these amazing lodges by Mountain Lodges of Peru – top comfort accommodations in the middle of nowhere […]
Read More...Finally some real progress on the new ocean crossing boat! The image above is a model that Ken made using the developed panels designed by Stuart Bloomfield. This is basically how the new boat will be built. The first step is to create the flat panels which are carbon over Corecell closed cell foam core. […]
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