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 [...]
Read More...Hello all,
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
I picked Jordan up from the airport on Friday night and we headed directly to the bar for dinner and a couple of beers. He’s a great guy and we get along very well. That is a good thing when two strangers are about to be locked into a 20 foot x 3 foot capsule [...]
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My name is Jordan, and I’m guest blogging for Greg because he invited me to help him shake down WiTHiN around Vancouver Island. I am not given to making baseball analogies, however, I do think the best term to define how I came to meet Greg and be included in the Vancouver Island circumnavigation in [...]
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My 2008 human powered boat record makes it into the 2010 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records
When we were in Whitefish, MT last weekend picking up some VI circumnavigation supplies at Target, we noticed they had the new 2010 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records in stock. I knew that they [...]
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Here is the schedule and contact info for the next few weeks. If you are able to make it out to any of the media events, lake trials or the Vancouver Island circumnavigation stops, then please let me know – we would be happy to see you!
Our email on WiTHiN via satellite phone (don’t send [...]
Read More...“My objective is to demonstrate the amazing things a human being can do under his
or her own power. I hope to motivate and inspire more people to explore their own
human-powered potential. It’s good for the environment, it’s essential for our health,
and sends the right message regarding physical activity to our children.”
If I seem a bit reoccupied with form over function these days, I’m not
really. Ken and I are working our butts off here trying to get the
boat ready for Vancouver island circumnavigation and choosing a paint
color, boat name and logo is all part of what needs to be done and it
is important to me. Make [...]
Well – here she is all freshly painted. FINALLY. Ken and I hauled the boat to U-wrench in Calgary where we rented their paint booth for a few hours. Typical of the kind of good luck that seems to follow this project around, when Ken was in the auto body supply shop asking questions about [...]
Read More...Koa: Hawaiian for “Bold“
Thanks for your suggestions regarding a new name for the boat. You had some really great ideas that were definitely responsible for sparking some deeper thought of my own.
When I sat down a couple of years ago with the intent of developing a keynote speech, I did some pondering about what [...]
Read More...Please weigh-in on your choice of paint color:
Choice #1: Viper Bright Orange Pearl
Choice #2: Crayola Crayon Skin Color
We liked the skin color idea so much, that we just went ahead and painted her skin color. Yes, this is an attempt at being funny. The photo above is just the beige colored epoxy micro [...]
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