Gotta admire that sheer amount of effort that's been put in...to bad he's been working the wrong direction.

He loses my sympathy once he flatly discards any & all advice from more qualified people about problems with the concept. He could regain my support if he was willing to throughly test the thing over the next few months, make the needed improvements, then re-plan progressively longer voyages. One day acrossing SF bay in flat water does not a test plan make. For all we know, he has departed this morning for at least SoCal and perhaps the southern ocean. Yesterday's images could be the last anyone ever sees of the guy.
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