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 – a little [...]
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 pace [...]
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 [...]
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 more [...]
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 jet [...]
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 at [...]
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. Then [...]
I just finished a 100 km running week. I’m not sure if I have ever run that much in one week previously, but I didn’t find it that tough. I think the most difficult part was running INSIDE around a track for [...]
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Surf City Marathon
Helen and I just got back from a GREAT trip down to Huntington Beach, California for the Surf City Marathon – a top rate event which I HIGHLY recommend if you are looking for a scenic marathon to run. We were there with our good friends Kevin and Cindy Casper.
Cindy had a great [...]
Hey everyone.
Not much to report aside from my training is going fairly well – just plugging away at the training program my coach Jason Yanota made up for me. The riding is all inside on the mag trainer which, for shorter-harder workouts, isn’t so bad.
I’ve been in dental hell since getting a pile of work [...]
It looks like Jason Yanota’s most excellent training program is paying off. I hit 270 watts today for my 20 minute test. That’s not all that outstanding compared to the world of what is possible, but considering that I started at a wimpy 250 watts about 6 weeks ago, that’s not bad.
As you might recall, [...]
Yesterdays keynote speech at Metafore Corporation here in Calgary at the Palliser Hotel went very well! I was invited to present at Metafore’s customer appreciation night 2 months ago.
My messages about not quiting, the importance of having a strong vision in accomplishing your goals, and why being bold about your challenge will give you an [...]
Wow – how time flies hey?
I have been very bad at keeping the blog up to date – sorry. Here is a quick update on some of the various projects I am working on:
PedalTheOcean.com – human powered ocean crossing
You might recall that last winter I decided to push the pause button on PedalTheOcean for a [...]
Read More...Check out the new ride! The Nocom lowracer from Velokraft.More about the bike at Warren’s site.
The Nocom is made by Velokraft out of Krakow, Poland. There are only a hand full of these radical bikes in North America – and probably the world.
My Nocom is pretty extreme because it is unpainted to save some weight. [...]
Man, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged… I’ve been busy and I guess there just hasn’t been much news of interest to report. Until just now.
It seems that the 24 hour human powered vehicle record from 2006 in Eureka, CA was picked up by the editors of the 2009 edition of the Guinness Book [...]
Wow… “this is one of those moments that I will never, ever forget” I thought. My senses were being overloaded. It was nothing less than absolutely spectacular. From my three sentence blog that I typed in over my Blackberry from on board Critical Power 2 in the middle of Whitefish lake sometime around midnight: “15.5 [...]
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Pedal the Ocean expedition canceled
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