As planned, I am leaving on Sunday for a week-long trip to Washington D.C. and Ann Arbor, Michigan. In Washington, I’ll be seeing George Ullrich, Bill Chadsey, Ty Grigsby, hopefully Gil Binninger, and a number of others. Unfortunately, Steve Noonan from Telcordia won’t be able to make it down.
While I’m gone, Solutions will be undergoing [...]

This week I’m going to have a meeting with the Synthetic Genomics people to whom we provide support in the way of using Solutions for ocean sampling activities here in San Diego. You might have noticed an increasing number of articles in the press about Craig Venter and his various research projects. He and his [...]

While Solutions is still being examined to find the root cause of its electromechanical problems, we have been using the Blue Moon motorsailer, which I have only a part ownership in now. I think this situation will continue until Hinckley can get the repair people from Maine to San Diego to fix it.
We had a [...]