The Plan About E.S.P
 


 

"Our collective behavior is made up out of our individual input" 

Meet the Directors of the Electric Sailing Society which is initiating and hosting the Electric Sailing Project
 

Paul Mulder Barry G Buckle Jimmy H Chow Dean Eilertson

 

Donnie Allen

Erica Argelo

 

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Paul Mulder Project leader

Born raised in the Netherlands and for the last 25 years call Vancouver B.C. Canada my home port. At about 19 years of age spent a year and half in the Dutch Navy [mandatory]. Thereafter raced motorcycles internationally including the 24hr of Le mans. Moved to Canada in 1982 and was lucky to find work in the film business in Vancouver. Was privileged to work with some great people on some well known project such as Canadian TV series the Beachcombers and many feature films like, Legends of the Fall, 7 Years in Tibet, Xman 3 etc. During this period started Ar Seiz Avel Sailing ltd a company specializing in Offshore Sail training. Was instructor and skipper of the Ar Seiz Avel for over 15 years, circumnavigated the world in this capacity. During these years while spending a lot of time out at sea and visiting many countries, seeing how humanity lives and how it effects our planet in a negative way, I realized that it is time for me/us/humanity to change course. Therefore I made the decision to dedicate my future endeavors to help promote "to live life in a sustainable way and in harmony with nature" initiating the Electric Sailing Project.

Originally the world was discovered by sailors
 and their vessels. I think as modern day sailors with new available enviro pro technologies we can rediscover the world and ourselves to prove and promote that we can live and function in a new way that is life sustainable and in harmony with our planet on which we all live.
We owe this to ourselves, life and future generations.

You are cordially invited to join us.

Sincerely Yours
Paul Mulder
 

 

 

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Barry Buckle  Director

Born in Montreal Quebec December 18th 1944.
Barry G.Buckle grew up in the Laurentians in small rural towns surrounded by hundreds of lakes. He developed an appreciation and respect for nature, the water, and our( humans ) interdependence on the land and creatures that we live among. He learned to sailing a 15’ Snipe on Lac des Sables and got the bug for sailing. He became a certified ski instructor before leaving the Laurentians to travel for two years in Europe..(.working his way to Europe as a deck hand on a Norwegian freighter...his first experience of being at sea in the North Atlantic). He traveled from Northern Norway to Morocco, Turkey, Eastern and Western Europe, taught skiing in St Moritz for a season, and eventually returned to Canada, headed to BC and attended university where he graduated with a degree in Recreation and Education in 1972. Since then he has worked on the railroad as a yardman, a wilderness instructor with BC Corrections service in an Outward Bound style program for youth at risk teaching climbing, canoeing, hiking etc., a correctional officer, owned and operated a bakery, as a salesman for Sony corporation with western Canada as his territory, as a councilor in a program for youth with drug related problems, and for the last 20 years has owned and operated an international yacht charter agency called Old Salt Charters Ltd. It was in this capacity Barry met Mr. Paul Mulder, owner ofthe 42’ cutter Ar Seiz Avel and in addition to representing the Ar Seiz Avel a friendship was born. Barry also experienced first hand off shore sailing on the Ar Seiz Avel doing one trip down the Baja from San Diego to Los Cabos, and a couple of years later sailing through the Tahitian Islands and then down to the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. As I see and experience the effects of what we are doing to the planet through our use of fossil fuels, and the products made from them.

I have long ago realized we all must act now to reduce our individual foot print on this beautiful planet which is our physical home.

I am excited about the Electric Sailing Project and encourage everyone to come on board with us in our effort to search for planet and life friendly alternatives to fossil fuels.

Barry G. Buckle



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Jimmy Hipman Chow  Director

 

I was born in Canton, China in 1948.
When I was 2 years old, my Mother and I escaped from the rise of Mao and the Communist Party and came to Canada. We arrived by T.W.A. in Vancouver in the early 1950’s. Here we were united with my father and we lived in many different places from Saskatchewan to Quebec.  We finally settled in Vancouver where I attended elementary school, high school and college.

     I started my career with the C.B.C. [Canadian Broadcasting Company] in 1973. I worked in the Design Department as a stagehand, doing graphics and set decoration. Moved into film work and spent the next 3 seasons on a popular TV series “The Beachcombers”. While on location in Gibsons, B.C. I met the energetic and charismatic Paul Mulder.  After 5 years of employment with C.B.C. I left to form my own company, Avatar Pro & Design, which would service the emerging film industry in Vancouver. Looking for a work partner I interviewed Paul and hired him. Together we worked on many projects over the next 10 years including “Legends of the Fall” “Seven Years in Tibet”, “Snow Falling On Cedars” “X-Men” just to name a few. My company has serviced over 30 Feature Films, 12 Movies of the Week for television, 3 TV Pilots, 2 Mini Series and over 100 commercials. After 35 years in the film industry I can now look forward to possible retirement. In the last few years I have sailed with Paul on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, the Netherlands, and most recently 3 weeks in the Caribbean.
 


The ESP Project will be a landmark project for people to finally take personal responsibility for preserving our world and the planet.
 

 

                                                               
                  

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    Dean Eilertson Director

For many years my perspective on this world was usually from high up on some mountain. It started with downhill skiing at an early age, by high school I was ski racing. My first summer job was in Jasper and my first climbing course followed soon after.

I was never into team sports but rather was attracted to more intense personal experiences combined with the adrenalin rush of relying solely on my own skill levels for survival.

Over time I learned to push those limits: extreme skiing, climbing, cycling, paragliding, luge (Canadian Team 80-85) my art and finally in the choice I made for my career.

In my lifetime I have seen changes,the glaciers on the mountains I used to climb have receded. Comparing my pictures of the ice fields in the Rockies & Yukon of 1975 to today is where the wake up call for me started, the changes are alarming.

The mountains I have climbed and experienced in my life are no longer the mountains the next generation of climbers are experiencing today. Clean climbing is losing to global warming.

I didn’t discover sailing till I moved to Vancouver in 1986. 2006 I sailed with Paul across the Atlantic. That was where I finally discovered our oceans. Around this same time Al Gore released his film “Inconvenient Truth” what he was able to show made sense. When a person is stuck in a city their sense of scale is directly related to their surroundings. Buildings, cars, the size of our TV’s do not compare to the vista you get from on top of a mountain you have climbed or from the deck of your sail boat in the middle of the Atlantic. If you have traveled maybe you can relate to what I am saying.

Yet it is the scale of this planet we as human beings have been affecting.

Maybe the sum total of my own life experiences has made it easier for me to appreciate the seriousness of our situation. Each of us has got to start doing something – anything we can, it’s time to start giving back.
 

ESP. isn’t just about building a boat; it’s about finding a way to eliminate the use of fossil fuels on our lakes and oceans. Hopefully my skills as a designer and artist can be applied to help with this mission.

 

 

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 Donnie Allen Director

From the time of birth I always loved being in touch with water. Grew up around the great lakes, in the state of Michican. My parents at the age of 10 they bought there first boat. We spent the next 6 summers cruising  lake Sinclair, Huron, and lake Erie. At the age of 24, married with 2 children we bought a 52 foot John Alden schooner,  hoping to live at sea. During the summer of 1971 we sailed the Malabar around the great lakes. From 1972 to 1980 started rebuilding the her, she was only about halfway there when the money ran out. and she was sold. Her new owner finished rebuilding her. It was hard to let go but deep in my heart I knew I find another boat someday. In the years that passes I sailed in the Caribbean and the South Pacific, During  the adventure sail and learn voyage in the South Pacific with Paul Mulder I decided that its time to find another vessel. Finally in 2001 found a 45 foot explorer cutter rig designed by Stan Huntingford. Paul's philosophy about sailing and being in balance with mother earth is something I believed in since the late sixties. That was one of the reasons we had bought the Malabar. Talking  with Paul about initiating the Electric Sailing Project, I got very exited and new I wanted to part of the organization and participate.

Sincerely Donnie Allen

I feel we are in a very important time in history.
the ESP is one way to show the world that it is possible
 to be living in a sustainable world.


 

 

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                     Erica Argelo Director   

Hello my name is Erica Argelo and I was born in the Netherlands on 19 august 1958 in a small town named Zaandam. I still live in the Netherlands approximately 20 minutes from Amsterdam.  I started my first job as a saleswoman in a shoe store and I have worked there for many years. I worked for several years at service facility and in a lingerie store. After 25 years retail y made a career move. In 1999 I got a job as executive secretary in a broadcasting organization and also worked in the Finance Banking Sector. In the meantime in 2005/2006 I was on volunteer basis initiator and coordinator to achieve a center of awareness. Summarized I have compound a project Group, approaching participants, maintain contact project development and offered the local authorities a concept implementation of the project. In the meantime I become mother of Michael and Bianca two wonderful kids who now are adults. In February 08 I got the opportunity to work as professional practice education advisor at the National Consortium of Business Groups. I coached trainers who guide students with their secondary vocational education within an organization.

I’ve met Paul during my work at a local banking institute in Bloemendaal.  Paul told me full of passion about the Electric Sailing Project and I felt the energy. I new directly that I could contribute my acquaintance and qualities to this fantastic project and I have taken action to invite several institutes to participate as sponsor in the project.
 

l would like to contribute my share to the World to create collective consciousness with all our joint positive energy to safe our beautiful planet.