IMG_0030.jpg' alt='How To Install Speedplay Zero Cleats Installation' title='How To Install Speedplay Zero Cleats Installation' />Pedal. The. Ocean. The adventure started almost immediately on Thursday morning as Pat Lor and I headed West from Calgary with my human powered boat Wi. THi. N in tow. We departed bright and early at 6 0. Banff park gates. To my horror, I saw that Wi. THi. Ns top hatch was goneHome Adam smith capital asset depreciation durable economics s nonrenewable resource physical capital production service stock. The boat had slipped forward on its stand and the strap that holds the hatch down had slipped off. Also missing was the hatch tether which had pulled its anchor right out of the deck wall. SPP/SPP000F/GRN.jpg' alt='How To Install Speedplay Zero Cleats Installation' title='How To Install Speedplay Zero Cleats Installation' />Oh no We had to drive back to look or for it no choice. Taking Wi. THi. N into the ocean without the top hatch in place would be very dangerous. A wave could pour in and flood her which would result in a rescue. We drove 1. 00 km back to Calgary and then re traced the drive back to Banff with all eyes aimed at the shoulders of the highway. About half way back, Pat found it The hatch was on the right hand shoulder with the bright red side up. Its an 1. 8 x 1. I wish I could say the remainder of the drive was uneventful, but the winter road conditions were hellish most of the way with a fairly major snow storm near Vancouver. The good news was that even with the two hour detour and the snow, we actually made the 9 3. Nanaimo. We stayed in Nanaimo for the night and drove to a Home Depot the next morning to make some repairs to the trailer before heading over the pass to Tofino. To say that Wi. THi. N attracts a lot of attention is an understatement. Pat and I found it difficult to make our repairs in the parking lot because so many people were coming up and asking questions about the boat and the expedition. People were going away to get cameras and returning to take pictures and we got two offers to lend us support boats while in the Vancouver island area Wow it was SO cool to get that kind of response from random people. We thoroughly enjoyed talking to everyone. The 2. 5 hour drive to Tofino was fairly non eventful. Tofino is a town with a population o 1. Wild Tofino sits on the protected side of a small peninsula on the far west side of Canadas Vancouver island. We parked the Suburban and Wi. THi. N on the side of the main road leading into Tofino and went into our hotel to check in and figure out where to park the boat, etc. The hour or so that Wi. Universal Usb Installer For Ubuntu 14.04. THi. N sat off to the side of the highway was enough time for a significant percentage of the town to see her and want to know what was up. The phone in our hotel room started to ring fist it was someone from the local paper wanting an interview, then the local radio station requesting an interview. When I got back to the boat there was a note on the door from someone else wondering what was going on. Pat and I drove Wi. THi. N down to the public boat launch and managed to get Wi. Cannot Install Net Framework 4 Windows 7. THi. N into the water. IMG_7124_thumb.jpg' alt='How To Install Speedplay Zero Cleats Installation' title='How To Install Speedplay Zero Cleats Installation' />We were met at the boat launch by our South Korean friends producer Jin Kyu Yoo and camera man Sang Ryun Woo from SBS TV. Jin Kyu is producing a documentary on human power and Tofino was his second stop on a North American tour to cover interesting human powered projects. They included 4 days in Tofino to film my sea trials and interview me about the ocean crossing expedition and my Critical Power human powered vehicle 2. Our deal was that they would pay for a support boat for the sea trials if I brought Critical Power with me, so our relationship was definitely a win win situation. As I prepared to pedal Wi. THi. N back to the hotel marina, I noticed that I could not keep the front window clear of moisture. I couldnt see a thing. Nothing worked it was like looking through frosted glass. It was so humid and rainy that visibility out the window was about as close to ZERO as you could get. This was a PROBLEM I headed out from the public dock and was very surprised by the strength of the current. I noticed on my chart that the currents during peak tides are as high as 5 knots in front of the docks lining Tofinos protected East side. 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My night started by cooking dinner with my cool Jet. Boil stove and Mountain House macaroni beef chilly stew. That worked well I could hold the Jet. Boil by hand for the 2. I pour the water into the Mountain House packet and wait 1. It was pretty good. Then I settled in for the night by transferring to the sleeping compartment behind my seat. The bed is very cushy and there is enough room back there to stretch out comfortably. I found that moving around between the cockpit and rear area to be far too restrictive. It took a good 2. This will not work for the ocean crossing. I will definitely need more room. The temperature was about 2 or 3 degrees outside and it was very warm and cozy in Wi. THi. N. I had both vents open and could feel a breeze blowing through, but I was very warm. This will be another issue out on the Atlantic how to adequately vent heat from the sleeping area. I couldnt sleep the rocking of the boat was too much for me, but I was determined to stick it out. By 4 0. 0 am, the winds and waves had picked up considerably and I was repeatedly bashed against the dock. I gave up and joined Pat in the hotel room for a few hours of sleep. The phone woke me up at 9 0. It was the front desk informing me that one of the lines had broken and that Wi. THi. N was being tossed around on the docks from her single leash. I ran down there and sure enough, the repeated bashing against the dock during the night had cut through one of the ropes and Wi. THi. N was almost free While I was securing her to the dock, the skipper for the hotels Whale Watching boat came by for a visit. I explained to him that I wanted to get our around the peninsula to open Pacific for some ocean swells testing, but that I couldnt see out my window and relying on the video monitor was not safe enough. He seemed to think that he could lead me out and that I would be able to follow him with the video. We went through some safety procedures in case something went wrong and I was very confident that my new French buddy Pipot Dupuis knew what he was doing. He told me that he had been sailing all his life and had sailed around the world. By 1. 0 0. 0 am, Pipot, his boat Close Encounters, Pat, and my Korean TV crew were guiding me out of the Tofino marina area out into the open Pacific. My heart was pounding. I could easily see Close Encounters in my video monitor and was in constant communications with Pitpot via UHF radio, so finding my way was easy. Wi. THi. N maintained 7 kph with very little effort and seemed very stable. I tried to roll her by rocking back and fourth, but it was impossible to get the water line any higher than the bottom of the floats. About 3. 0 minutes later, we had rounded the corner and were into some chop. A bit further on we were into rolling swells with quite a bit of chop and white caps.