A global sailing expedition built on small boats, disciplined seamanship, reef science, and the belief that the ocean is still trying to tell us something.
Wind and solar only. Zero carbon. Zero compromise.
Seven countries in Year One.
Blue Rim 5™ is a long-term global sailing expedition committed to reef science, oral history collection, and disciplined seamanship across the world's tropical coastal systems. The name refers to five major reef systems the expedition is designed to document — starting with the Western Caribbean and circling outward as the fleet and the longitudinal record grow.
This is not a gap year. This is a career. The commitment is twenty years minimum — building a record of reef health that no single funded research program has been willing to build, because no funded program has been willing to put the same people in the same small boats on the same coastline for the same number of decades.
"The scientific gap and the expedition route are the same map."
Phase One is the Rim Run™ — an annual circuit of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. First circuit launches October 2026.
Blue Rim 5™ — parent project · global circumnavigation vision
Rim Run™ — annual Western Caribbean circuit · launching October 2026
Nevado Raiders™ — the fleet · the people doing the work
Led by Daniel Roe — U.S. Coast Guard–licensed 200-Ton Master Captain, ASA sailing instructor (monohull & multihull), former U.S. Navy submariner, FAA-licensed drone pilot, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and expedition sailor who has been doing hard things on the water since before most sailing influencers were born.
Modern Y-DNA work traces his paternal line through the I1 haplogroup to Thorvald Asvaldsson, Erik the Red, and Leif Erikson. He sails as Ove Ironhand. This combination shapes everything: calm decision-making, conservative risk management, and preparation over bravado. The life is genuinely extraordinary because the standards are real.
Daniel Roe — Catamaran Dan
Ove Ironhand — Norse identity
Blue Rim 5™ is not one idea — it is a layered system. Reef science, oral tradition, fleet, vessel systems, and the personal story behind all of it. Each has its own page.
Annual Mexico-to-Panama coastal circuit. 100+ reef sites. 7 countries. 370 days. The full route, gallery, operating protocol, and vessel detail.
Rim Run™ → The Living Saga™Garífuna, Guna, Miskito, Q'eqchi' Maya — oral traditions that have been reading these reefs for centuries. The expedition as a moving oral history project.
The Living Saga™ → SystemsShamrocket. DRAGR sled. EcoFlow power. Torqeedo propulsion. The complete zero-carbon systems architecture behind the expedition.
Systems → AboutUSCG 200-Ton Master, USN submariner, ASA instructor, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Full background, credentials, and expedition philosophy.
About →
Shamrocket — Hobie Getaway · 24" draft
The actual Norse were farmers, fishermen, and navigators who crossed cold seas in shallow-draft boats without charts. To go viking meant to set out — to explore, trade, test skill, and return changed. Their ships drew so little water they could sail directly onto a beach and walk into a village. Not to attack. To listen. To trade. To find out what those people knew that the Norse did not.
The same logic lives in Shamrocket. Twenty-four inches of draft. Caribbean reef inside the barrier. The same question: what do the people closest to this water know?
Modern Y-DNA traces Catamaran Dan's paternal line through the I1 haplogroup to Thorvald Asvaldsson, Erik the Red, and Leif Erikson. He sails as Ove Ironhand.
Not a flotilla of matching boats and matching egos. A disciplined collection of real sailors on real boats with a shared operating standard and a genuine appetite for what lies beyond the marina breakwater.
"Sailing to virtually anywhere on Earth — as long as it makes sense and the risks are acceptable. Small boats. Real seamanship. Cultural respect. No passengers."
Ideal vessels: shoal-draft or centerboard sailboats under 26 feet — Hobie Getaway, Catalina 22 Sport, and similar. Guardian vessels (30–50 ft sail or power) welcomed and valued.
Nevado Raiders™ — Fly it when you've earned it
What the Mint Julep is to horse racing, Bourbon Storm™ is to the yachting community. Born on a blue-sky equatorial Pacific day in 1984 that turned dark, wet, and alive — then cleared just as fast. The recipe remained private for forty-one years.
2 parts coarse sea salt, 1 part sugar. Wet the outside rim with fresh lime and dip. Fill with fresh ice.
1½ oz white rum · ¾ oz blue curaçao · 1 oz pineapple juice · ½ oz fresh lime · 1 oz coconut water · 1–2 dashes aromatic bitters. Shake hard. Strain over ice.
½–¾ oz dark rum over the back of a bar spoon. Blue below. Dark above. Salt and sky at the rim. Do not stir.
The bourbon is the star — the first nose, first sip, and finish live in that top layer.
The Rim Runner™
Rim Lightning — 1984 · The origin
Whether you are a scientist, a sailor, a filmmaker, a sponsor, or simply someone who understands what is at stake — the Rim Run Expedition wants to hear from you.
nevadoraiders@gmail.com
"Better Beachy than Bitchy™" — Anchor down.
Blue Rim 5™ · Catamaran Dan · Nevado Raiders™
Cell: (928) 250-9763 · nevadoraiders@gmail.com · White Mountains, AZ · www.catamarandan.org