A 10-year sailing and reef exploration expedition of the living reef edge — serious science by day, extraordinary living by night, and a story being written one circuit at a time. The Mesoamerican Reef off of Mexico is the start - the Bahamas is the finish - and so much in between.
The Rim Run™ begins at the Mesoamerican Reef off Mexico's Yucatan down to Honduras, along the coral-rich coasts of Colombia and Venezuela, down to the South Atlantic Mesophotic Reef System along Brazil, then back north through the vibrant reefs of the Lesser Antilles and across the Bahamas Banks to the Bahamas, this continuous 10-year coastal sailing journey spans 40 countries and islands, blending reef exploration, world-class snorkeling, natural air and nitrox diving, and adrenaline-filled encounters like "running with the bull sharks" into one unforgettable ocean-wide adventure.
The Rim Run™ is not a standalone science program. Every observation made on this circuit feeds into GROAN — Global Reef & Ocean Analytics Network — a five-level ocean decision intelligence system. This expedition generates the original field data that the system's Cross-Module Interaction Engine works with. Field observation is the input. Better decisions about reef systems are the output.
Anchor Down — The Rim Run Way
From Mexico's northern edge of the Mesoamerican Reef to the South Atlantic Reef System off of Brazil, ending up in the Bahamas. 11,500+ nautical miles, dozens of ecosystem zones.
Rim Run™ — One continuous 11,500 mile expedition
| Country | Key Stops | Days | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇲🇽 Mexico | Puerto Aventuras · Cozumel · Xcalak · Banco Chinchorro | ~21 | Northern hub — government coordination, REEF partnership & staging |
| 🇧🇿 Belize | Ambergris · Turneffe · Lighthouse Reef · Blue Hole · Glover's · South Water · Placencia | ~100 | World's 2nd largest barrier reef — home waters & citizen science base |
| 🇬🇹 Guatemala | Livingston · Río Dulce · Lake Izabal | ~35 | Most extraordinary inland waterway in the Americas — Q'eqchi' Maya oral traditions |
| 🇭🇳 Honduras | Cayos Cochinos · Utila · Roatán · Guanaja | ~80 | Bay Islands — whale sharks, 100+ ft visibility & Garfíuna maritime knowledge |
| 🇳🇮 Nicaragua | Big Corn Island · Little Corn Island · Pearl Cays | ~29 | Priority Year 1 — essentially unsurveyed, Miskito reef knowledge still intact |
| 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | Tortuguero · Cahuita NP · Puerto Viejo · Manzanillo | ~35 | Jungle meets reef — Afro-Caribbean oral tradition & dormant Reef Check sites |
| 🇵🇦 Panama | Bocas del Toro · Portobelo · San Blas / Guna Yala | ~44 | Southern hub — Reef Check EcoDiver training, Guna autonomy & finest snorkeling on circuit |
🇧🇿 Belize — Lighthouse Reef
🇧🇿 Belize — Turneffe Atoll
🇧🇿 Belize — Glover's Reef
🇧🇿 Belize — South Water Caye
🇬🇹 Guatemala — Río Dulce
🇭🇳 Honduras — Roatán
🇭🇳 Honduras — Guanaja
🇳🇮 Nicaragua — Corn Islands
🇵🇦 Panama — Bocas del Toro
🇵🇦 Panama — Guna Yala / San Blas
A Hobie Getaway catamaran — 17 feet of shoal-draft, wind-powered reef machine. Twenty-four inches of draft means Shamrocket goes places no keelboat can follow: inside the barrier reef, up against the caye, into the mangrove channel, onto the beach itself. Right up to where the people are. Where the stories live. Where the real knowledge is kept.
Wind and solar only. Zero diesel. Zero carbon. As GROAN Level 1 — the Mobile Ocean Observation Platform — Shamrocket is the physical decision arm of a five-level ocean intelligence system. Every deployment is decision-driven. Every data point feeds the architecture above it.
Shamrocket — Hobie Getaway · 24" draft · GROAN Level 1
The work is real. The evenings are extraordinary. When the data is logged and the anchor is set, something shifts — the cast net goes in, whatever the Caribbean gives up goes on the solar stove, and the Rim Runner™ gets made. This is how the day ends when the day has been done right. The food, the music, the company of people who belong here — this is not the reward for the expedition. It is the other half of 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. It belongs to the water and to the evenings the water gives you when you've earned them.
Heavy straight-sided rocks glass with a blue rim band. Rim mix: 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 juice • 1 oz coconut water • 1–2 dashes ginger or aromatic bitters. Shake hard ~10 seconds. Strain over fresh ice.
Float 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.
Same blue base. Float ½–¾ oz bourbon instead of dark rum. The bourbon is the star — the first nose, first sip, and finish live in that top layer.
Pineapple juice, coconut water, orange juice, lime, blue curaçao syrup (NA). Float iced tea or cola as the storm band. Same glass. Same rim. Same protocol.
The Rim Runner™
Rim Lightning — 1984 · The origin
