Clifford Goudey

photo:  Egils Zarins

The World’s Largest Anemometer

Six aluminum trusses, two polyethylene hemispheres, cables, hardware, and steel ground stakes

Like an anemometer on the top of a sailboat mast, the wind plays with this towering sculpture, revealing the wind speed at a 25-foot elevation. Count the number of revolutions in 30 seconds to get the wind speed in knots.

Cliff is an engineer, has lived in Newburyport for 21 years, and keeps busy finding ways to get work done on and under the ocean.