I’m just not sure that hull deflection is the reason my V11 is 12% slower than Rick’s version. Marc calculated that I should be able to approximate the water pressure on the skin by placing a 2.5 ‘ long by 4″ wide board with a 13 lb weight on the hull between the bulkheads and [...]
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I think we have a break in the case of the missing speed.
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I was thinking more about Cyrille’s comments (and others) about the hull skin deforming under the pressure of the water. The hull is made from 2 layers of 5.8 oz carbon and 1 layer of 6 oz carbon/Kevlar weave plus [...] -
I finished all my mods yesterday. What a BUSY, busy day! I can’t believe I accomplished what I was able to do in just one day. My goal was to add some additional structure to the prop strut to stop it from vibrating, add a bushing half way down the shaft to stop it [...]
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It was the perfect day – high of around 18 degrees C and dead flat calm during the morning. I finished all of my little fixes to the boat yesterday, and headed out to Glenmore Reservoir early this morning to test the boat again.
I climbed into my seat, kicked her off the [...]
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New 24 hour record boat lake test
Well, the good news is that it floats and generally works well. Very smooth pedaling action, very stable and quite comfortable. The less than good news is that it performed much slower than expectations which means I have more work to do.
Stefan messaged me yesterday that the ice is [...]
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Big progress over the last couple of days. It is Saturday morning now, and I am pretty sure that tomorrow she will be ready for her maiden voyage if I can find some unfrozen chunk of lake somewhere.
Here are a pile of images showing progress over the last few days:My buddy Manny from Rhomec [...]
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Progress updates:
You can now follow my micro updates by subscribing to the PedalTheOcean Twitter feed. I am thinking of updating this feed during the 24 hour record attempt every hour. The advantage of following a Twitter feed is that you can choose to receive updates on your cell phone, text messages, email or follow using [...]
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24 hour human powered boat record:
This boat is going to be fiendishly fast!
First you have to check out this work of art that my buddy Manny from Rhomec Industries made for me:It’s the aluminum prop, spinner, bearing tube and fairing cones for the drive for the new 24 hour record attempt [...]
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V11G outrigger shell in the vacuum bag
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V11G outrigger shell pulled off the foam plug
My first carbon outrigger popped off of the Styrofoam plug nicely. The general shape is very true, but there are small imperfections on the surface finish due to the release film creases and some imperfections in the styrofoam. These could [...] -
My new friend Murray Flanagan stopped by my shop this morning to meet me and see WiTHiN and Critical Power. We had a really nice chat, and then, of course, I put him to work! I seized the opportunity and recruited Murray to help out with the carbon work on the first outrigger.
Rick Willoughby [...]
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I’ve been spending some time planning out a pretty daunting schedule for the coming year, and if I can accomplish everything that I have set out to accomplish, it will be one hell of an amazing year! I am really excited about it all – I have TONS of work to do, but I say [...]
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I received two certificates in the mail today from Guinness World Records. One for my HPV 24 hour distance record and the other for the pedal boat 24 hour distance record.
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I used to read the Guinness book of world records when I was a kid and I always fantasized about making into the record books. [...] -
NO RECORD!!!
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I’ve know about this for a while now, but I’ve been sitting on it until everything with the Human Powered Vehicle Association (HPVA) and Guinness World Records became ‘official’.
I do NOT own the HPVA human powered BOAT 24 hour distance record as previously thought, but I do own a new 24 hour pedal boat [...] -
Hello everyone – I have some really great news:
1. Guinness World Records recognizes my HPB and HPV records!
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2. Brand new Adventures of Greg web site
3. Pedal the Ice Cap – a new adventure!
4. “Human Power Rocks” weekly video web cast
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1. Guinness World Records recognizes my HPB and HPV records!
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This is me now, one experienced salty dog.
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Helen, my son Cody, and I spent 5 days living and learning aboard our chartered 39 foot Bavaria yacht cruising the islands south and east of Vancouver Island. Our captain was a lovely girl from Brisbane, Australia who teaches here in Canada during her winter, and [...] -
The LIVE reports and videos from onboard
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WiTHiN during the 24 hour record attempt are here.
View the photos of the event at the PTO web site
Hey everyone:
I am recovering. Like I say to the media when they ask how I feel: “right now, I feel like I was run over by a truck”.
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New World Record!!! Greg Kolodziejzyk pedals 173.76 km in 24 hours in his human powered boat setting a new HPVA record.
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Here are the live updates from the 24 hour human powered boat record attempt at Glenmore Reservoir in Calgary, Alberta on June 2, 2007.
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Hey everybody, Greg here.
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Hello everyone Ben Eadie here, the geek behind the brawn. I have been entrusted to post on this blog by Greg while he is out on the boat during the record attempt…
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Ohhh! the power Bwaaaahahahahaaha…… hack! cough! he he…. So you will have to put up with mine bad gammer and speling for a post [...]
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