My name is M. Scott Ault and I want to see
ONE MILLION CARS PARKED!!!
The Self, courier days, Vancouver BC
So I am currently building a Pedal Powered Boat that I will pilot entirely around the planet! 100% Pedal Propelled.. and 100% Pedal Powered! No solar, No gas back up.. and very likely.. 100% UNSUPPORTED.
But WHY?!?! 1 car driven 20Km roundtrip to and from work, 5x a week for 47 weeks will release 1210 Kg of c02e.. that’s a lot! If 1 million cars were PARKED and people CYCLED instead.. that would mean that 1,210,000 Kg of TOXICITY isn’t released in to the atmosphere.. and NOT releasing it is way better than reclaiming it, sequestering it, offsetting the damage with taxes!
Join me.. and get the sticker to show the world you cycle through that you Parked your car as part of the SOLUTION!
The Boat, in pieces as the Boat Shed is cleanedd out
This year has been amazingly DIFFICULT.. and frought with much more than just speed bumps.. more like concrete barricades.. at almost every turn! From the death of one of my oldest friends to the loss of the Boat Shed rental space where I was working on the boat.. to another and another and yet another emotionally draining and psychologically debilitating setback.. I am basically DONE with this year!
Storage of The Boat fell through while I was in Calgary moving things in to the storage unit.. and there wasn’t enough space to store the pieces of her so.. she was hauled to The Dump and deposited there..
Pieces of The Boat.. at her final resting place, Spyglass Public Dump, Calgary. A sad sight.. but life is about abandonement not holding on..
So, while the act of abandoning the boat at Spyglass refuse site was disheartening, I had spent most of the day *meticulously* measuring her.. tip to toe, side to side.. documenting her measurements and angles, all, because..
While I was there, I found a *guy* selling a cool product.. raw 4′ by 8′ sheets of hex- core foam panels.. the image, at left, prolly doesn’t do any justice but you get the idea- with the purchase of 10 panels/ sheets, I have enough to build out the entire BOAT all over again.. and the plan was, initially, to use the hull~ as I had built to that point~ just as a FORM to lay- up the cut panels prior to adding fiberglass and epoxy.. so, really~ everything I had done up to that point just needed to be measured and then replicated on a strongback.. all parts I have in the storage unit!
This means.. TheBoat will be lighter.. MUCH MUCH lighter than before! I mean, I was overweighted with just the hull in pieces when I went to the dump.. and I had removed plywood panels. So, the hull~ as she sat in the boatshed prior to chopping her up~ was probably in the 300lb range. Not car- toppable, not maneuverable.. one panel is about 6lbs so, add fiberglass and epoxy she should weigh in under 500lbs when finished (unladen).
Just gotta find a place to build her (yes, I am working on that!)
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My goal is to get ONE MILLION CARS…
…PARKED!!
I am circling the planet in a pedal powered boat to prove that cycling works
TheBoat is almost finished.. departure is set for March 15th 2027..