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Back to the Drawing Board circumnavigation (from 2007 to 2012), Eruc summited Kos-

Six Summits Project

When Eruc decided he was going to circumnavigate the ciuszko in Australia and Kilimanjaro in Africa.

“So what remains are Everest, Elbrus, and Aconcagua,” globe by human power, he started reading about such jour- neys and came across a book, Ultimate High by Göran said Eruc.

Everest is next on the list, and the plan today is for him to

Kropp, a Swedish adventurer who had bicycled from Sweden to Nepal in 1996 to climb Everest solo. “He came to Seattle leave from his home in Gig Harbor in the Spring of 2021 and launch from the shores of California for an 11-month-long for a presentation, I met him, and his ? rst two questions to me row across to mainland Asia, the shores of China, followed were: ‘when are you starting?’ and ‘do you have sponsors?’”

The meeting would be a turning point for Eruc, as he and by a bicycle ride to Tibet to climb Mount Everest.

While the challenge of Six Summits attracts him, it is the

Kropp had the chance to go climbing together for the ? rst time ? ve years later in September of 2002, when they had an fundraising that sustains him. “We have a nonpro? t called Around-n-Over, and my mis- accident. “He fell and he died, I was his belayer,” said Eruc. “That sion on this crossing will be to raise awareness about plas- became the turning point for me, and on the way back from tics in our oceans,” said Eruc. “I’m an ambassador for the his funeral in Stockholm, on the plane, I drew the world map Ocean Recovery Alliance, and we focus on beach cleanups on a piece of paper, the proverbial napkin, and marked the and reducing plastic use in corporations and in installations and facilities like stadiums. Plastics Disclosure Project is one highest summits on each continent and sketched a path con- necting these, saying that I would reach each one of these by of their offerings. So all these ideas and hope for solution is what I would like to convey during my crossing and in my human power, as Göran.” blogs during the crossing.”

The Six Summits Project was born. http://www.HumanPoweredJourney.com

The ? rst was Mount McKinley in 2003, when Eruc bicy- http://www.Around-n-Over.org cled up there, summited the mountain, married his ? ance in

Homer, Alaska, and then bicycled back. During his ? ve-year

EBDG Donates Design Services

When Elliott Bay Design Group learned about ? ed version of the hull form was then modeled

Erden’s plan through a mutual friend in the design and faired. The goal of the design change was to and engineering community, EBDG was excited produce a hull with the same overall dimensions about the potential to play a small but valuable and largely similar hull shape, but with a rounded role. As ‘boat geeks’, the idea of a next-gener- bilge as opposed to the hard chines of the current ation vessel that would cross oceans under the boat. power of a single human was intriguing. Learning Once the new hull form was ? nalized, frame about Erden’s own design and engineering back- shapes were determined from the computer model ground and the details of his past record setting and full-size station mold patterns were created adventures made the opportunity irresistible. for the new strip-planked hull to be built on.

As the new boat would be a series of re? nements As of this writing, and due to multiple factors, to his current boat, we knew that collaboration in Eruc decided to stick with his original boat as a 3D environment would be the right approach. there simply was not enough time and money to

First though, we would need details of his current build a new one to be on the water in the Spring boat but because it was built by hand there were of 2021.

This image shows no drawings to work from. We began the design “Elliott Bay Design Group offered to do a 3D a point cloud of the process by performing a detailed 3D scan we then scanning of the hull and capture that accurately so vessel as captured imported into our modeling software. that I can then build a forms, cross sections, and by the 3D scanner.

Using the point cloud produced by the 3D scan, then go from there. I needed an accurate starting

Image: EBDG we created a 3D surface model of the hull and point and they gave me a foot up. So I’m grateful deck that matched the existing vessel. A modi- for their contribution,” said Eruc.

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