Fiction

Of Smoke and Tillers – an accidental enemy

/ Jared Waipouri

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It is a visceral, primal experience to be at sea, out of sight of land and days from help, pitting ones abilities against the brute force of unpredictable mother nature. When we left Philius Grigg he was limping his sailboat, S/Y Sloppy Joe, into the marina after just two weeks of the month he planned to be at sea. A vicious squall had irreversibly damaged his satellite communications system, but reawakened the inventive nature that now had Grigg on a course which would change the face of communications technology. With a grandchild on the way, Grigg’s return to solid ground was to be a tumult of emotions, adventure, and remarkable discovery pitted against the inertia of big business and protectionist technology communities. Continue reading →

Of Smoke and Tillers – a beginning

/ Jared Waipouri

For years mankind has set out across waters great and small to explore what lies on the other side, to carry supplies, to settle in new places. The oceans of the world remain one of the great mysteries to be discovered. They are frontiers which draw people to adventures, to journeys which test the mettle of ones spirit, which refine and transform those who heed the call.

In the early stages of 2016, as a result of an adventure of this nature, a man not well known, made a transformational, even disruptive discovery in a little known corner of the South Pacific.
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