Want to Climb a Wind Turbine?

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Dec 6, 2019 | Outdoors, Talk of the Bay | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Want to Climb a Wind Turbine?

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If your car breaks, you take it to a mechanic. If your wind turbine breaks, you call a climbing technician who isn’t afraid of heights. In this interview we talk with Jackie Sommers and David Anthes of Rope Partner, a company in Santa Cruz that will go climb a huge wind machine and fix it. Most of their employees are ex-rock climbers and surfers who aren’t afraid to have a little fun hundreds of feet off the ground. And for a bonus, we get a song by Keith Rayburn of the Rayburn Brothers.

Here is a video of their death-defying work.

About The Author

Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.