Here is the 10 minute Inside Passage Sea Trials movie – enjoy!:
I know this might sound a little corny or sappy, but sometimes I feel like my actions, goals and general direction in life are being guided by some mysterious force in the universe with the goal of setting me up just to experience it’s [...]
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The drive was uneventful and fast. Made the 5:45 ferry. Watch the video Bryon made:
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As you know, I’ve been having some issue with making enough electricity to power my various electronics and equipment (and gadgets) on board WiTHiN.
WiTHiN’s surface area visible from space is relatively small – especially compared to a much wider ocean row boat. As a result, there isn’t much real estate available for solar panels. [...]
On Feb 15th – this Monday, my buddy Bryon Howard and I are driving 1000 km west to Nanaimo, a small city on the east coast of Vancouver Island. On Tuesday, the 16th, we will depart from Brechin public boat launch in WiTHiN as we attempt to navigate the inside passage between British Columbia main [...]
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I have 5 months to get my body and mind ready for the toughest challenge I have ever undertaken. Here is a rough outline of my training program for the next 5 months:February – Heavy endurance volume, light intensity
week 3: 60 hours – 5 day sea trials trip on east coast Vancouver island
March – Moderate [...]
CALGARY (Jan. 27, 2010) – It’s a good thing Calgary endurance athlete Greg Kolodziejzyk isn’t claustrophobic, because this Thursday he is going to spend a long time in a very small space.
To train for his Pedal The Ocean human-powered attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean from Victoria, BC to Hawaii this summer, Kolodziejzyk will climb [...]
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Aside from safety, one of the most important design criteria when Rick Willoughby, Stuart Bloomfield and I designed WiTHiN is SPEED. Our objective was to design the most efficient human powered boat that would be capable of safely crossing a large portion of an ocean. I think we have accomplished that goal, but obviously I [...]
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I’m not sure why I get like this, but for my entire life as a project nears completion, I start asking myself that question “what’s next?”. There is no way that my human powered pacific ocean crossing project PedalTheOcean is anywhere even close to nearing completion, but I would honestly say that like any big [...]
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5 months and 2 weeks until departure and I’m almost ready to go now – well, aside from the 200 lbs of food that still need to be packed, and two more ‘educational’ sea trial trips that I need to make.
An item on my to do list since the last sea trials trip was to [...]
It looks like Apollo 11 in here. And I imagine that it feels a bit like that as well. A little place for everything and everything in its place – very tight but efficient.
My INDOOR sea trials are done and I would say that it was a very valuable experience. I learned a lot and [...]
INDOOR SEA TRIALS? HUH?I am composing this blog post in my shop right now sitting in WiTHiN pedaling away trying to complete a 24 hour simulation. I started at 8:00 am (Monday 11h) and at 8:00 am tomorrow morning I will climb out o the sleeping cabin and go have a shower. I’m almost at [...]
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hello again. this is a test of my Viliv mobile pc, uuplus software, sending a blog post via the iridium satellite phone. if all is working, there should be a photo of the system all packed up into the otterbox waterproof case. im amazed that the external sat phone antenna gets a signal INSIDE my [...]
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This is a test blog post. I just sent an email from UUplus sat phone email software via my Viliv Mobile PC neatly packaged into my OtterBox water proof case. This is a WordPress blog amd I send this email to my account at Posetrous.com and they forward the email along with the photo attachment [...]
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I started discussions with Ken Fortney a year ago about the possibilities of coming to work for me to build the most awesome, ocean going human powered craft on this planet. To Ken’s credit, he recognized the opportunity to expand his expertise and to be a part of this expedition. To say that he did [...]
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In my last blog post, I asked if anyone had any ideas as to how I could position the propeller to vertical so that I could pull the drive leg up through the drive leg well. Normally this is an easy task, as all I need to do is align the a mark etched on [...]
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Power power everywhere and not a drop to drink.
This has been said about the salty sea water, but it’s also true to some extent about power in general. There is power in the waves, power in the wind and power in the sun. But turning all that power into usable, stored electricity to run [...]
How many times in your life have you been able to say that you were actually looking forward to meeting with an auditor? I presented my Keynote address to the Institute of Internal Auditors yesterday at the Palliser Hotel here in Calgary – I was really looking forward to it, and it was a blast. [...]
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SPEED RECORD
I depart from Tofino, BC, Canada on July 1st which is only 6 1/2 months from now and I will pedal my human powered boat WiTHiN to the Hawaiian Islands. My goal is to become the first person to travel from Canada to Hawaii under my own power, and the first person to travel [...]
MARATHON
Helen and I just got back from a wonderful trip out to the San Fransisco bay area.
We started our little mini-vacation with running the California International Marathon. I was injured so I was expecting to walk most of it. As it turned out, my hamstring injury wasn’t that bad and I was able to run [...]
After my last blog post, there was some discussion about leaving some air space below my sleeping pad to allow condensation and water to collect. I wanted to expand a bit on that with additional photos and details on an amazing find that I made of a new product from that bike crazy nation – [...]
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Pedal the Ocean expedition canceled
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