I had the pleasure this weekend of sailing around the Wellington Harbour with captain Glenn Andert and his partner Pamela in the learjet that he’s been sailing for the last 3 years around the pacific between home #1 in California and his new home with Pamela at #2 - New Zealand.
(The bend in the windmill blades is an illusion from the iphone capture I’m pretty sure)
Striking the balance on the ocean
A software architect by trade and co-founder of several IT companies, Glenn seems to have struck a pretty cool balance. Traveling long haul across legs of the pacific usually seems to involve spending time with locals at lovely islands, stopping at reefs for a week or so of diving, catching enough fish to eat along the way. And all the while the wind runs off the back of the main sail and flys straight into a 900 watt wind turbine, which keeps the computer and GPS going easily and tops up the onboard battery power supply. Humming along the Wellington harbor being powered by a sail of wind and generating energy at the same time just feels… right.
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Last year I posted about How to make an island and solve a few of the worlds problems, 8 months on and a whole bunch of volunteers have now got involved in building the 2nd Spiral Island, and here's where its at
Find more photos like this on Richie Sowa's Spiral Island
From Randy McCallum - "The Island is now about 25 meters (80 feet) long,...(Read more)
Our friends over at Ponoko who let you make real things that get cut out of wood and plastic from your designs that you put on their website, are running a design competition, details here. One of my real good buddies Pete Black makes and designs all sorts of stuff. I've worked on with Pete on software and web projects for a few years a...(Read more)
If you missed it here's day 1 and day 2 of the wall painting, and below the finished product... speaks for itself... Big thanks to Ruth Abraham - The Scotish Muralist, this is magic and lights up the wall in my house that doesn't look out to the ocean.
A few shots from day 3 and 4.... and the last run at 4am I think...
I've been very lucky in the last couple of weeks a new friend over from Scotland painted me a picture of one of my favorite views, the view out to the surf from our family beach house. The thing that made me extra lucky, is that she made it 8 foot long and 4 foot high, so its a walls worth of inspiration. Here's day...(Read more)
