BASE CAMP MOUNTAINS GREENHORN BOAT SHOP EXPEDITIONS T-SHIRTS THAT DONT SUCK FILM SAILING CONTACT Our interest making films is one that goes back to before the ALLURA project in 1999. We were considering the idea of trying to film the construction of a 50 ft. catamaran, because we felt that the images involved would make a great lead-in for a documentary film. The idea was to create an “Endless Summer” kind of adventure story mixed with a Jacques Cousteau type expedition at sea. That creative work was just a pipe dream we thought, but regardless we contacted some studios with the idea. This was at a time when we as three brothers were about to begin building a boat that would absolutely change the course of our lives. We had little more than the idea to offer to any film effort, because all of our mental energy and physical endurance was about to be tested in the construction of one giant wooden boat. Not to mention we were utterly penniless and had no idea how we would even fund the boat project never mind a film. Three young men in their 20’s with big ideas, rusty tools and no money. “No” is what we heard from the studios and that was that. We went on to work 9,000 hours that year (more details under the above picture link). Three guys averaging 11 hours a day, six days a week for one year could not have been more productive. The boat was well finished, seaworthy and Coast Guard certified for 77 passengers. After a 1,400 mile offshore trip to the Caribbean, we found success in the day charter business. ALLURA was host to some 40,000 passengers and traveled 14,000 sea miles in continuous daily excursions around the Virgin Islands for five years. After selling the boat and retuning to the states we showed a slide show of our story to a few production studios in early 2006. The responses we got were positive and encouraging, but one statement stands out in our minds as being particularly inspiring. Mostly it inspires through our resolve to never under-represent our ideas again. After seeing the pictures and slide show one film executive turned to us and said, “You should have let us know about your original project: it would have been great in a film.” We just bit our tongues and stayed silent, because that was the same studio that seven years before had told us that it would never work. In reality they were correct both times, it never would have worked the first time around, we were too young and too rushed to complete the boat out of fear that we might default on our huge debt we had incurred. We were untested then and clearly flying by the seat of our pants. But now, with better building materials, continuing demand for oceanic travel and exponential growth in the catamaran market, we are ready to rewrite the play-book. Our next project is designed to further the original dream, to take all of our life experiences and roll them into one do or die example of our intense desire to live out that dream. We are now pursuing the idea of an imax film, but not in the same lackluster way. This time our entire goal of the next five years is to create a powerful visual experience through film. One that incorporates wooden catamaran building, surfing, sailing and scientific expedtioning. We are undertaking a two year graduate program at Prescott College that focuses on “Expedition Planning and Adventure Documentary Film.” By superior planning and unparalleled creative work we hope to set out on an expedition to the Pacific Islands in 2012. 2012 FILM EXPEDITION BARACA STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL Surf-Sail-or-Die THE QUEST Adventure Sailing Class Refugee allstars Adventure Ecology Wooden Catamaran
 
FILM “People miss opportunities, because opportunities are dressed up in overalls and they look like work.” - Thomas Alva Edison SITE LEGEND EXPEDITIONS BASE CAMP T-SHIRTS THAT DONT SUCK GREENHORN BOAT SHOP CONTACT FILM PHOTOGRAPHY MOTIVATION MOUNTAINS SURFING THEORY SAILING FOUNDING BROTHERS MISSION STATEMENT WANTED POSTER COMPENDIUM PROJECTS AXIOM APPRENTICESHIP RECOMMENDED FILMS being caribou LOST TRADES FILM The Corporation Crude Awakening Why We Fight “He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Stealing a nation