Mainstream Renewable Power Sponsors TheLastFirst Rowboat Claiming Arctic Passage World First

I JUST HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE TWIST THE TRUTH FOR SELF SERVING PURPOSES - THELASTFIRST ROWBOAT CREW HAS HOODWINKED MAINSTREAM RENEWABLE POWER INTO BEING A SPONSOR SAYING THEIR ARCTIC (NORTHWEST) PASSAGE WILL BE A WORLD FIRST.

BULLSHIT - THAT IS A BLATANT LIE OF OBVIOUS FALICY!

SEE WHAT IS BEING REPORTED ON THE MAINSTREAMRP.COM WEBSITE:

http://www.mainstreamrp.com/uncategorized/mainstream-renewable-power-sponsors-irish-quest-for-arctic-passage-world-first/

A FEW SELECT QUOTES...

"Renewable Power today announced its sponsorship of a rowing expedition attempting a world first through the infamous Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic"

1. THE ROUTE BETWEEN ARCTIC HAMLETS INUVIK AND POND INLET IS ABOUT 1600 MILES. THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE IS BETWEEN DAVIS STRAIT ATLANTIC ARCTIC CIRCLE AND THE BERING SEA PACIFIC ARCTIC CIRCLE. A DISTANCE OF OVER 3300 MILES. 

NOT EVEN CLOSE TO A NW PASSAGE... 1500 VS 3300 MILES. I'D BE EMBARRASSED TO MAKE SUCH A CLAIM AFTER BEING ADVISED OF THE FACTS... CONTINUING MISREPRESENTATION... BOY DOES THAT SPEAK VOLUMES.

NEXT, A NEWS MEDIA SNIPPET (HYPERBOLA FROM ROWER PAUL GLESSON) AND MAP PICTURES FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING...
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/the-final-frontier-irish-rowing-team-attempts-the-northwest-passage-1.1350440?page=1

The Final Frontier: Irish rowing team attempts the Northwest Passage
In July, Irish and Canadian rowers will attempt the first crossing of the Northwest Passage in the Arctic Ocean, one of the world’s most notorious sea routes, in a single season

Paul Gleeson

Sat, Apr 6, 2013,

In just under four months I will sit into a 25ft rowing boat with three other men, high up in the Canadian Arctic, to embark on our quest to row 2,000 miles across the infamous Northwest Passage...This journey began two years ago in my adopted country of Canada, where I was giving an adventure-related talk. One of the other speakers at the Vancouver event was Canadian adventurer Kevin Vallely...For years, Vallely had contemplated an expedition that has never been done before. A handful of people have tried to cross the Northwest Passage, but nobody has yet traversed it in a single season under human power alone...Vallely mentioned the idea to his friend Frank Wolf, we had the third team member. Wolf is another hugely accomplished Canadian adventurer, and the only person ever to canoe across Canada...When a friend of mine, Denis Barnett, learned about the trip, he wanted in too. Barnett is from Dublin and although this is his first major expedition, he has an interesting adventure background in rally driving and skydiving...The most infamous of these was the Franklin Expedition that departed England in 1845. The 129-man crew made it part of the way through the passage before their boats were crushed in the ice and the entire party died. Their ships, Erebu s and Terror , were never seen again. In the context of the Arctic, the search for these boats rivals that of the Titanic and the Canadian government believes it is close to finding the historic vessels. This summer, we will be rowing through what is believed to be the final resting place of these ships...There is also a very significant Irish connection to the Northwest Passage in that the second-in-command on the infamous Franklin expedition was an Irishman, Francis Crozier. Crozier, from Banbridge in Co Down Ireland...As a proud Irishman, I feel that Barnett and I, and Vallely, who is half Irish, have the opportunity to address some unfinished business for Ireland when it comes to the Northwest Passage. This is both exciting and nerve wracking. We are attempting one of the last great firsts left to be done in the world today... I am 36 years old and Barnett is 32, and we have realised that 42-year-old Vallely and 47-year-old Wolf are phenomenal athletes...A crucial part of our planning so far has been focused on our boat. We will need a boat similar to the one I used to row across the Atlantic. Ocean-rowing boats are designed to deal with the harsh conditions that an unpredictable ocean swell can dish up. They need to be tough and fully self-contained, with the ability to self-right in the event of a capsize. However our boat needs to be designed with slightly different considerations in mind...Ultimately we are not rowing an ocean but the deeply challenging Northwest Passage where stiff winds, choppy swell and obstructive ice conditions will play a huge part in our progress. Our boat needs to be designed with these considerations in mind and our hull shape will differ from many traditional ocean-rowing boats. The vessel will also be reinforced with Kevlar to withstand any encounters with ice...

The reality of planning an expedition like this is that you cannot do it alone. We have been very fortunate to put together a great team of people to help make this happen.As the expedition will cost €190,000, a large part of our work over the past year has been to try and find a strategic corporate partner to help make this happen...

We have spent a lot of time trying to find a good fit and were delighted when an Irish company, Mainstream Renewable Power, came on board recently as our strategic partner for our expedition, which we have called the Mainstream Last First...

We’ll be keeping Irish Times readers updated on our progress in the newspaper and online...

For more information on the expedition, see thelastfirst.com

FYI - ILYA KLVANA PADDLED "SOLO" ACROSS CANADA IN ONE SHIPPING SEASON FROM WEST TO EAST IN 1999 - SEE WEBSITE: kayak99.com

A Possible Log Entry?:
I can see from sea a dozen inches of snow already covering the ground... I can not bring myself to stay offshore waiting for the storm to pass... the waves have doubled in size in just a quarter of an hour... with a raging storm building the waves are breaking on shore without interruption, forming rolls about 2 meters high, paddling to shore means being caught up in the surf... I have no choice... staying at sea means capsizing and the real possibility of hypothermia and drowning... as I paddle hard I reach the surfline... a wave crashes rolling me over... I'm out of the kayak and swimming for shore... I do not even have time to collect my thoughts and immediately another wave is rushing over me again... it is cold and dark... no one in this wilderness is there to even see me or help... it is up to me alone... I use all my strength in desperation... true to my bad habits I do not have my lifejacket secured... I have lost it in the surf... still a distance from shore I promise that I have learned my lesson this time... if God allows me to live for another day... I promise...

Does the Arctic give second chances? History says "No"!

TheLastFirst Route Map - Inuvik to Pond Inlet - only 1600 miles

2. THE ARCTIC HAS ALREADY BEEN ROWED SOLO BY MATHIEU BONNIER IN 2010-2011 BETWEEN QUAANAAQ GREENLAND AND NOME ALASKA. SEE: http//www.expeditiontico.com/

. "...attempting to become the first ever people to cross the 3,000 km passage by human power alone in a single season."

3. WHILE THE KEY WORDS ARE "IN A SINGLE SEASON" THEY WILL NOT BE THE FIRST TO ROW ANY DISTANCE IN THE ARCTIC. IF THEY THINK THIS EVENT IS GOING TO BE A WORLD FIRST I WOULD CHALLENGE THEM TO HAVE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS AUTHENTICATE IT. GOOD LUCK!

FYI - 21 PRIVATE YACHTS MADE A TRANSIT OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE IN 2012 - MANY WERE SAILBOATS - DON'T TELL THEM THEY DIDN'T DO IT ON THEIR OWN STRENGTH.

http://northwestpassage2013.blogspot.com/2013/05/transits-of-northwest-passage-to-end-of.html?view=sidebar

BOTTOM LINE - THELASTFIRST ROWBOAT AND CREW ARE NOT CHALLENGING THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE - THEY ARE ROWING BETWEEN TWO ARCTIC HAMLETS, INUVIK AND POND INLET.

WILL THEY MAKE GOAL?:
 a) Arctic weather is intense - even during the summer season - expect ice and winds to challenge if not overwhelm oar power.
 b) 60-90 days with a crew of four will require millions of calories in food supplies - expect running out of fuel before reaching Pond Inlet.
 c) The rowboat 'craft' is a unique and unproven Arctic design/outfitting - shelter is the first rule of good survival - capsizing risk and auto-righting is technically unresolved - as in loaded 'craft' testing, no professional naval architect incline experiment booklet, without which deployment would not be prudent. The risk is just to great... failing to plan is planning to fall.

Adventure is just bad planning.
  - Roald Amundsen

AND JUST FOR THE RECORD - IT'S BECOMING COLDER FOR THE LAST 80 YEARS, NOT WARMER. HERE IS THE ACTUAL NOAA TEMPERATURE DATA:

NOAA’s measured temperature data shows April has been cooling in the US since 1930.

SOURCE: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/ 

81% Of The US Below Normal Temperatures In 2013

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/YearTDeptUS.png

IN CASE YOU MISSED RECENT NEWS IN THE USA - ALL TIME RECORD COLD TEMPERATURE AND SNOW FOR MAY IN ARKANSAS (A USA STATE) - 31F AND 0.5" OF SNOW. THE LAST RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE WAS SET IN 1954 OF 35F.  MAY 3RD IS THE LATEST DATE SINCE RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT OF SNOW IN ARKANSAS.

https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/arkansas-blows-away-all-of-their-my-snow-and-cold-records/

BE SURE TO CHECKOUT THE WORLDS MOST VIEWED WEBSITE ON GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/18/what-else-did-the-97-of-scientists-say/

“..scientific issues cannot be decided by a vote of scientists. A consensus is not, at any given time, a good predictor of where the truth actually resides..”

“..The “hockey stick” graph that the IPCC so touted has, it is my understanding, been debunked as junk science..”

“Climate is a very complex system with many variables including sun radiation cycles, ocean temperature, and possibly other factors that we are not even aware of.

There are studies and data out there that are being overlooked by the IPCC. Ultimately, maybe we are the biggest cause or maybe we are not, but the current push of saying that human activity is the cause is interfering with an unbiased and scientific evaluation.” 

“..and I do not think that a consensus has anything to do with whether a hypothesis is correct. Check out the history of science…you will find that scientific discovery is generally made by ignoring the ‘consensus..’” 

“..Science is based on scepticism and experimental proof. Whereas human GHG emissions certainly have a warming effect, the breakdown between natural and anthropogenic contributions to warming is poorly constrained.

Remember that the warming since 1650 AD (not 1900) is part of a real ‘millennial cycle’ whose amplitude cannot yet be explained by any quantitative theory.

Also, the computer climate models are both too complex to be readily understood and too simple to describe reality.

Believing their results is an act of faith…”

A former NASA Scientist says... IT ALL DEPENDS - read here: http://www.drroyspencer.com/my-global-warming-skepticism-for-dummies/

One last tongue-in-cheek belly laugh...

Obama Has Had The Fewest Hurricanes Of Any President

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/
by stevengoddard

NOAA keeps hurricane records back to 1850. The average number of US hurricane strikes per presidency is almost eleven. Obama’s presidency has had only three hurricane strikes, matched only by Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Harrison.

Grover Cleveland and FDR both presided over 26 hurricanes, almost nine times as many as Obama.

Chronological List of All Hurricanes

During his state of the Union Address, Obama implied that the overwhelming consensus of science says hurricanes are getting worse. That is patently false.

• WAR IS PEACE
• FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
• IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

- George Orwell   “1984″

THAT SAID... :-)

I THINK 'HORSE PUCKY' PUTS THELASTFIRST INTO PERSPECTIVE... AND MAY GOD SPEED YOUR ARCTIC ROWBOAT EXPEDITION FROM THE END OF THE ROAD AT INUVIK NWT CANADA... HOLLY COW ARE YOU BOYS IN FOR A RUDE AWAKING DURING YOUR ROW TOWARDS POND INLET... I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR BLOG POSTINGS. 

PLEASE BE FACTUAL! 

(HOW CAN WE TRUST ANYTHING YOU SAY OR PUBLISH AFTER SO MANY OBVIOUS LIES TO DATE?)