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The Wind Blew Me Home – Chapter 2

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Dan from ondesire.movie

It’s best to start the morning slowly after a 9 hour enchanted sail, to take a languid inventory of all of your parts, cozy warm in the sleeping bag. A trip down to the boat for toothbrush and iPhone charging … Continue reading →

Posted in 09-10-01, 09-10-02, Around Lake Michigan, Hello World, latest news | Tagged baolong, baolongs, camping, coast guard, crescent city, crystal lake, crystal lake catering, dry bag, flintlock pistol, francisco morazan, frankfort airport, Hello World, hobie cat, jim barnes, joe sturges, john anderson, john barnes, light house, michigan, north manitou, ore boat, patrick kelly, point betsie, sage, sail, sleeping bag, south manitou, subaru, things lost, windfinder, wisconsin | Leave a comment

Intensity

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Dan from ondesire.movie

I jettisoned the sludge around 9:00 am and headed southwest, with the intention of hyper jumping 40 miles across the UP and camping just past the Garden Peninsula on summer island. It was to be a short and very intense … Continue reading →

Posted in 09-09-25, Around Lake Michigan, disasters and catastrophes, Hello World, synchronicity / fortunate accidents, training / practice, visualization (magic) | Tagged airfoil, airplane, camp, camping, conscious, garden, hobie 16, hobie cat, jib, main sail, mogul, mph, pressure, rudder, sail, sailboat, sheet, speed, synergyhobie, tiller, vacuum, wave, waves, wind, wing | Leave a comment

Old Mission to Barnes

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Dan from ondesire.movie

Brisk north wind of 15 knots with gusts up to 25! Then there were the waves, crest to trough 4-5 ft at times. Sail up and over, big splash, do it again. After about 14 miles of tacking nw and … Continue reading →

Posted in 09-09-18, Around Lake Michigan, Hello World, latest news | Tagged barnes park, campground, crest, drain, gusts, hobie cat, hull, iphone, knots, sunbather, tack, water, wave, wind | Leave a comment

Hobie repairs begin in earnest

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Dan from ondesire.movie

I’ve been moving tentatively on the hull repairs for the Hobie 16 because it’s scary. Grinding down gelcoat and fiberglass generates clouds of hazardous dust. There’s the expense of buying all the epoxy product to do the repair, not to … Continue reading →

Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, self education / research | Tagged hobie, hobie cat, michigan | 4 Comments

Hobie disassemble and inspection

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Dan from ondesire.movie

Future Sailors of America (Dan, Patrick and Jonathan) met this week for disassembly and inpection of our pre owned Hobie 16. We removed the hulls, washed off surface oxidation and crayoned the problem areas. Here is the most problematic problem… … Continue reading →

Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, Desire project preparation, disasters and catastrophes, Hello World, maker, repairs, self education / research | Tagged alan vigland, Around Lake Michigan, ecover, everclear, fiberglass, fiberglass repair, gel coat, hobie, hobie cat, jim barnes, jonathan kelly, nephews, oxidation, patrick kelly, rudder, vigland, vigland gallery | Leave a comment

Telemetry 090630

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Kai Schwarz

I don’t think Dan’s coming to Hawaii. It seems, for ideological reasons as he won’t fly in a jet due to it’s carbon footprint. I can respect his convictions though I don’t fully adopt them as my own. He’s been … Continue reading →

Posted in collaborators, Desire project preparation, disasters and catastrophes, document / journal, health / survival, kai, story, sustainable, vision / planning | Tagged armadillo, blue water, carbon, collective culture, dan kelly, desire, footprint, hawaii, hobie cat, humanity, inter-island, kona, nervous system, portland, radar, radar reflector, radio, san francisco, seattle, solar panel, sustainability, transpac, wind generator | 1 Comment

Meanwhile

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Dan from ondesire.movie

The first wave of Transpac 2009 starts without me tomorrow. Jets are only $100 from LA to Honolulu – not an option. So how am I getting to Hawaii? I spoke to the San Francisco office of Greenpeace and passed … Continue reading →

Posted in Desire project preparation, movies, sculpt, sustainable, synchronicity / fortunate accidents, training / practice, visualization (magic) | Tagged alan vigland, container ship, cruiser, don seth, gertrude ekstatisch, greenpeace, hobie cat, merchant marine academy, mike murphy, no jetting, northwest michigan folklife, on desire, patrick kelly, shop and save, transpac 2009 | Leave a comment