We have had a long friendship with Carl Cramer, publisher for 25 years of the American ‘Wooden Boat’ and ‘Professional Boatbuilder’ magazines. Last year Carl retired as publisher, but is continuing with other boat related enterprises. Last month he organized a Symposium on yachting in Amsterdam, called ‘Boatbuilding Live’ held on 17th November, the day before the opening of ‘Mets’, the European marine trade show.
James and Hanneke were invited to speak at ‘Boatbuilding Live’ in a 90 minute time slot, so got to work on writing a paper with the title ‘Integrating Philosophy with Boat design’. Unfortunately the symposium was cancelled, but instead Carl asked them to speak at a Pecha Kucha event, also in Amsterdam. This is a new lecture concept originating in Japan where every speaker can show 20 slides to which he/she can talk for 20 seconds each, i.e. a total of 6 minutes 40 seconds presentation.
We had to make a fresh start, for writing for a Pecha Kucha is more like writing poetry than a lecture. From a wordy concept to the minimum, so we saw the time slot of 6 minutes as an illustrated poem of Hanneke, from a young girl sailing with her father, ending up as a boatbuilder, ocean sailor and designer. We have published it on Youtube so everyone can see it. You can also watch Hanneke's Live, unedited performance at 'De Rode Hoed' in Amsterdam here.