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R E K

Dev & I watched the Race to Alaska movie yesterday, about racers that journey up Canada's Inside Passage to Alaska, a 1207 km(750 miles) ride through strong tidal currents, traffic-infested waters, and overall very difficult sea/wind conditions.

A very good watch.

r2akthemovie.com/
#thecinema

a team of women sitting the high side of a sailboat at sail named Sail Like a Girl, in the background snow covered mountains are visible. Photo from Hakai Magazine.
22 February at 16:03 | Open on merveilles.town
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R E K

We saw the R2AK depart from the Victoria Harbour in 2016(second year for the R2AK), we were amazed at all the crazy pedal-powered contraptions the racers had built to propel their boats (victoria harbour doesnt permit sailing, and the race forbids the use of engines).

22 February at 16:06 | Open on merveilles.town
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@rek It's a great rule that really fosters creative engineering :)

22 February at 16:13 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Les capsules du prof Lutz

@rek listening to the trailer: “I only search for live people, I don't search for bodies.” Coast Guard woman 🤣 @1:59

22 February at 16:16 | Open on mamot.fr
Avi Bryant

@rek I know I’m over-engineering but it would be cool to have a big flywheel that smoothed out the pedal input and also served as a stabilizer.

22 February at 20:29 | Open on cosocial.ca
R E K

@avi that'd be cool, Dev & I have talked about having a pedal system with a flywheel for Pino :>...(although our boat is too heavy for it to be rly worthwhile, I think)

23 February at 1:51 | Open on merveilles.town
Karstanization 🦀🦀

@rek It's so good, right? I saw it at the virtual Wooden Boat Festival when it debuted.

22 February at 16:19 | Open on urbanists.social
R E K

@Karstan oo lucky :)... I only learned yesterday that the event started in 2015 :P, thought it was older than this.

22 February at 16:45 | Open on merveilles.town
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