human power rocks. enjoy the ride.
The Inside Passage Sea Trials Movie: 10 minutes, HD quality, AWESOME footage of the whales!
(to view in HD resolution, go to this link, then click on the “360p” icon at the bottom of the video frame and change to “720p”)
And watch this A-channel news story on the sea trials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXvmGA6mLm0
I can’t believe that after more than 3 years of planning this project, I depart for Hawaii in a little more than 4 months from now!! One of my goals during the recent Vancouver Island inside passage sea trials was to learn more about how my human powered boat WiTHiN handles various wind and sea [...]
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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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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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