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Article: BOAT DESIGNER PUSHES PEDAL POWER RETIRED UW PROFESSOR SAYS THAT, ON THE WATER, SLOWER IS BETTER.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 14, 2000
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Philip Thiel's message is simple, uncomplicated.
Slow down, Thiel urges. Turn off the boat motors. Enjoy the outdoors, the Pacific Northwest's inland water resources - but don't pollute, he says.
``When people come to their senses, they'll recognize that to enjoy the water, you don't have to move fast,'' says Thiel, who for 30 years taught architecture and design at the University of Washington.
Now, in the organized clutter in the basement workshop of his University District home, he devotes much of his time to his passion - designing small, pedal-powered craft.
Although Thiel has sold prototypes of his pedal-powered boats, he now ...