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singlehanded racing
At least it's a response, although a discouraging one.
I like the underdog, and I like driving toward an end. Probably why I wound up as a construction project manager. Bruce's drive is something to behold. Before the start of Around Alone, he was playing guitar in some Newport,RI pubs for tips, cash was so tight. As you read the updates from the race, donations *just* barely made it in to fund the next leg, one leg at a time. Right now, he is working 10 hours a day,in heated space, in Portland, Maine, (incidentally, some of the lock machinery for the Panama Canal was produced in these buildings) donated by Phineas Sprague, owner of Portland Yacht Services. He's staying in a house with a family that offered to house and feed him, when I've gone up to work, I stay in another supporters spare bedroom. Schooner Creek built an almost bulletproof boat,with the wood and foam sandwich, and Tom Wylie designed it to be fast *and* seaworthy. Unlike many of the others, it is not stable upside down. When he finishes, he will be the first American to officially finish this endurance trial. You would think that this demonstration of the classic American pursuit of a difficult objective would light the interest of somebody with some serious bucks. Potential media connections, and planned projects appear to be good, www.bruceschwab.com/partners Sportsbyline.com, the Sirius network, PBS in Seattle all have projects planned that would provide a lot of corporate exposure. The educational alliance with www.reachtheworld.org seems to be a positive link in an effort to fire the imaginations of schoolchildren. Yet a question about wax will generate more conversation here. Oh well. If anyone has any ideas, or knows someone with connections to a funding source, please reply, here, to me, or to Bruce Thanks, Jonathan Wim wrote: "I guess you just couldn't resist the political crap, eh?" And....what's YOUR response to Jonathan's mail? We're waiting....... |
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