Our story.

I started Non Linear Plasma Pty Ltd (NLP) to improve how we travel, ships products and consumes energy by using the same source of energy that protects us from cosmic radiation.

Growing up in Scotland I became an engineer in the emerging renewable energy sector -building my first wind turbine at the age of 12. Not surprisingly, I would later start my career at a company that manufactured wind turbines. I left Scotland to travel the world in my mid-twenties and found myself living on yachts and sailing a lot, the latter allowing for a considerable amount of time researching my childhood love of space and my new found love of sailing and the weather. Eventually what I found would lead me to design the Plasma Reactor and write The Unified wave theory to explain how all these topics and more can be better modelled by applying coulombs law to the ions in any medium, such as the ions in the air flowing over my yacht’s sail.
Contact: info@nonlinearplasma.com

My recently completed dream of sailing home from Hobart, Tasmania to Scotland (solo for the majority of the trip), completing over 23,500nm in the 4 years of ownership of the beautiful designed Swan 441. Sailing a yacht designed to be crewed by a strong team meant I had no option but to design systems that could replace the crew I didn’t have. A yacht must be in perpetual balance between all the forces on the rig and rudder in order to be steered by mechanical means. This required me to design a wind vane steering system that could control the yacht no matter the sea state. A wind vane can’t steer a yacht if the sails aren't balance and due to the racing nature of the design of the 441’s it was necessary to design a reefing system that allowed me to quickly reef my Main sail whilst also giving me the ability to adjust the camber of the sail cloth on every reefing point. This is something no other reefing system has been able to achieve, as the reefing clew must move parallel to the boom in order to maintain the same curve up the full length of the mast. Ocean sailor’s know this system is unbeatable due to the fact it has so few wear points on the stitching that holds the sail cloth together. The design allows for downwind reefing which is very important in big seas like the Bass Strait.

The Magnetic Wing that makes up the magnetotail of our planet maintains balance by adjusting its size, as the Solar Wind increase the Magnetosphere contracts, producing a perfectly balance system. My next big sailing trip is going to use this reefing system, so as to manipulate the Solar Wind to propel our civilisation to the next level.

The most important lessen Sailing has taught me is that the only grantee in this life is that change is inevitable. We have the choice to fear it or embrace it. If you don’t embrace change the reef won’t be prepared in advance.

SAILING TIPS…

If you think it, do it!! Reefs can always be pulled out.

If in doubt, head out. Deep water is safe water.

If she’s on the limit at dusk or dawn be prepared to hand steer or reef. The pressure change will only last 30 mins or so but it can over power the steering system. Dawn pressure change is a result of magnetic reconnection.

If it Flaps you deserve a slap. Sail cloth should be rigid.

The Captain is not God, the Yacht is. Look after her and she will look after you.