human power rocks. enjoy the ride.
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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I have been trying to spend as much training time in WiTHiN as I can. I think this is important psychological training for me. I need to get very comfortable with a 14 to 16 hour shift sitting in the recumbent seat and pedaling the day(s) away. I will slowly build up to two, 14 [...]
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It is one of my goals to make the crossing as fast as I can, and my target is 50 to 70 days. A record time (fastest average speed for a human-powered passage) will be a testament to the creators of WiTHiN – designed by Stuart Bloomfield and Rick Willoughby and their ncredible workmanship by my builder Ken Fortney.
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As if I don’t have enough on my plate these days! So I just had to go and do yet another redesign on the Adventuresofgreg.com blog. I was having problems with the old blogger.com blog, so I switched over to WordPress a few weeks ago. After I had the entire blog ported over, I still [...]
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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”. Thomas Edison
I am thinking about an early July departure from Tofino, so that puts me at about 8 months away. Not much time really. I’ve also been thinking (a lot) about what I can do to ensure that this departure is successful. I [...]
I just finished uploading 3 new videos: the story of our Vancouver Island sea trials from a couple of weeks ago which is a two-part YouTube video, and a highlights video which is about 4 minutes of footage of WiTHiN in the water for those of you who want to get right to the boat [...]
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I’m back from our Vancouver Island sea trials now. Our shake-down cruise was unfortunately abbreviated, but was great while it lasted. We saw seals, dolphins, jelly fish, and were making great speed and everything was going as planned. Then we had a sudden drive leg failure, almost ran into a ferry, dealt with the [...]
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Hey everyone – Greg here. I’m about 10 km North of Pentincton on Okanagan lake right now with Ken taking a turn on the pedals. I’m in the cabin and decided to write a blog post and send it via satellite phone.
So – why are we here and not on the Pacific around Vancouver Island? [...]
I’m sitting in Victoria waiting for the Clipper to take me back to Seattle. Something I expected to do, but not so soon on this trip. The boat broke, or more specifically a pin that held the gear to the drive shaft. Second to the boats a
That morning began with a [...]
The unlucky streak ended right after the garbage truck driver backed into WiTHiN and smashed up the bow and bent the trailer struts. Ken was able to fix it (as we knew he would) on Thursday as Jordan assembled our lines (sea anchor, anchor, drogue, bumpers, dock lines, etc). All other remaining work went smoothly, [...]
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“I placed my bare feet onto the white gel coat behind the drive shaft gingerly, slowly brought my other foot up and around the edge of the boat and finally in the hatch and slid down slowly into the cockpit with serviceable efficiency that is still nowhere near graceful. The tiny craft reminded me simultaneously [...]
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Ben here, I am going to be the central hub or communication link between Greg, Jordan, Ken, Helen and all the rest of the team for a bit here and doing the blog posts. I will do my best to keep things as current as possible. Just a little FYI note…
~Ben
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