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This project successfully raised its funding goal on August 31, 2009.
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Get your signature on the boat. See you really are a part of it!
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I will make you an origami sailboat. Srsly, they're so cute. My hands to your hands, bro.
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I'll send you a polaroid picture from the trip! It'll be unexpected, it'll be original, it'll be one of a kind. cool!
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*NGFM*: SEND YOUR CARDBOARD SPIRIT ANIMAL ROUND THE WORLD (+all preceding non-NGFM prizes!)
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DUDE! You get a sailor hat! A SAILOR HAT! who doesn't look great in a sailor hat?!?!
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*NGFM*: YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL ROUNDS THE WORLD - Emily will send you weekly updates of how your Animal Friend is doing (+all preceding non-NGFM prizes!)
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*NGFM*: THROW A BIG GULP AT LAURA JANE'S HEAD, TRINIDAD-STYLE - Emily Richmond will send you an empty Big Gulp cup full of Trinidadian goodies (+ all preceding non-NGFM prizes!)
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BUDDY SURVIVAL PACK!! Donate $75 or more and now you're getting a 5 pack of ACR survival whistles. Keep one for yourself, give the rest to your friends! POWER IN NUMBERS! (PS. These look seriously great as necklaces. Summer color-pops anyone??)
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*NGFM*: Your cardboard spirit animal has a shot at love. (+ you get all preceding non-NGFM prizes!)
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I WILL MAIL YOU A COCONUT.
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*NGFM*: THE EASTER ISLAND ACID-DIAL (+ all preceding non-NGFM prizes!)
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*NGFM*: TURN YOUR LOCAL THAI RESTAURANT INTO ACTUAL THAILAND (+ all preceding non-NGFM prizes!)
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I'll call you from the port of your choice.
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*NGFM*: BECOME LAURA JANE FAULDS' NEW MUSE.
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We will record a podcast together over skype, you can ask me anything you want!
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*FOR ORG'S* : Become an official sponsor! Your organization's name, description, and web link will appear on my SPONSORS page.
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*NGFM* DAR-WIN IN DARWIN (+ all preceding non-NGFM prizes!)
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*NGFM* : For $711 plus the price of a plane ticket to Toronto, you can come live at Laura Jane Faulds' apartment for a day, and Emily Richmond will make a video of you throwing a Big Gulp at my head. We'll put it on Youtube, and it'll go viral. Instant fame! Oh yeah and you can also get the Trinidad Goodie Cup too. (+all preceding non-NGFM prizes as well!)
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*NGFM*: THE BALLAD OF YOU & EMILY RICHMOND (+ all preceding non-NGFM prizes!)
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I will make you a personalized video touring the location of your choice! You choose the port and i'll show you around via your very own short film!
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*FOR ORG'S*: I'll live video conference with your organization! Get 2 check-ins per year (4 in all!) where I will host a special video conference to let your members dialogue with me about my trip! (+ you will also be listed as an official sponsor on my site).
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Are you rich?? Do you like to talk on the phone?? Be the first person to donate $2,500 or more and you will be the first person I call when I CROSS THE EQUATOR!!
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*FOR ORG'S*: Semi-annual live check-ins PLUS I will come do a wrap-up presentation of my trip IN-PERSON at your organization when I return home (US ONLY). You will also be listed as an official sponsor on my website.)
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YOU CAN NAME MY DINGHY. It can be your name, it can be a funny name. you choose, i'll go with it.
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*NGFM* LAURA JANE'S MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR IS COMING TO TAKE YOU AWAY! (+ all other preceding non-NGFM prizes!)
One word of advice: you should reconsider your route; instead of going through Suez Canal, you should go south of Africa ... to avoid ... pirates off of Somalia.
Good luck with your trip.
Hope the travels are going so well Em! I have my origami sail boat on my fridge : ) -- I recently launched a project as well, check it out: http://kck.st/aHI3js <3 Z.
Emily,
I'm so happy you reached your goal. I tweeted your mission on Twitter in the last days. I hope it helped! Kevin
Bloody hell, YOU MADE IT!!!! I can't wait to live vicariously through your adventures.
Fantastic! Incredible how the last 22 hour crunch pulled in almost 1/2 of the goal funds.
Bon Voyage! Definitely, I agree, a nice bottle of Champagne would do nicely for the launch.
Best!
Well done Emily (and everyone else!)
Can't wait to hear about your progress as the trip gets going. And I think the last minute nature of the success just made it more of a nail-biter. I'm in the UK, so went to bed last night feeling gutted that you'd got so close but not made it, then woke up this morning to wish you CONGRATULATIONS. Exciting!
J
P.s. I think you should spend the extra 142 dollars on champagne for the launch!
THANK YOU EVERYBODY!!
You know there is something that bothers me about this...I think its a little lame how at the midnight hour, about 15 minutes from the deadlines...a couple people swoop in with large pledges to rescue this project. Its like this project was only saved from doom by a few last minute miracle rescuers...Shouldn't this project have had more steady, consistent support from the beginning? Why did it have to rely on last minute miracles? Hopefully your journey doesn't take the same path.
Incredible!! Such a relief you made it! Yeah, Kickstarter! Truly, I was bummed because I thought it was a lost cause. Fantastic!
Emily your trip is truly blessed by the gods! I'm coming to visit you at the Marina tomorrow!
Yipee!!!!!!!! You did it!!!
Yipee!!!!!!!! You did it!!!
woohoo! i've been watching to make sure you made it and kept raising my pledge! congrats!
Yipee!!!!!!!! You did it!!!
OMG you made it!
You're not going to make it... :(
Thanks, Christene!
good luck to you!
THANKS SO MUCH GUYS! YOU GUYS RULE!!!!!
You got this -- keep it going! one big last push! :-)
Nadege, good ideas! Team France is top-notch!
If we cannot find a rich dude or a rich babe, I suggest another solution :
Emily needs to raise 3864$ and we’re 109 Bakers. It means that if each of us gives 35$ more, the 8000$ will be pledged! What do you think? I’m going to try that !
This is amazing! I've sent the link to your kickstart page to my family! Best of luck! wear sunscreen.
Bon voyage Emily!
Thanks so much for the kind words Michael!
Hey Chris! Thanks so much - your project looks fantastic too. Hope it's coming along nicely now!
Emily... congrats. I just donated a small amount as money is tight. But my hope is by funding your dream... it will remind me in some way to never stop pursuing my own dreams (and helping others to achieve theirs). I'm impressed. Stay well and happy and I will do my best to put you in your story in front of others who can also write a check. Michael (Denver, CO)
Best of luck Emily! I love your project.
Loved the update on the blog!!
You're the only gal I know who can be up to her knees in bilge and still look 100% adorable.
SEND ME MY COCONUT!
thanks mike!!
i LOVE your project so much too! im so sucked into all your vids now!! AMAZING work....best of luck!
I just wanted to say that I *love* this project. And I'm going to do my best to donate what I can before this kickstarter ends. I just watched your whole video and I can't wait to see more of this process. The making of the boat, the next step in funding, all of it. It's super exciting!