Dec 20 2007
Caught this on the Google Earth blog:
The second presentation I wanted to mention was by the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Univ. of New Hampshire (summary here). Working in conjunction with NOAA, they have developed an excellent visualization in Google Earth to illustrate where shipping traffic has been accidentally killing right whales (these whales [...]
Dec 18 2007
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0712/gallery.101_dumbest.fortune/11.html
“Fortune chose the absolutely dumbest of the dumb that the gods of fate and humor delivered into our laps - and yours - this past year.” And Captain John J. Cota’s unbelievably minimalistic “I touched the delta tower” made it to number 11. Way to go.
Course, me ‘n mine are still raging about the [...]
Dec 16 2007
We’re watching Pirates of the Caribbean 3, and as usual, we’re all entranced, and I’m doing a running commentary on what’s sorta accurate, what’s utterly bogus (like the scene where three ships right next to each other, the one in the middle going opposite direction, all have wind fully in their sails). And Jason, who’s [...]
Dec 15 2007
A few readers have asked me how the boys are adapting to the boat. I finally caught up enough with some other projects to get some good photos going, and so here’s the update.
This is what bath time looks like in the boat. Yes, those are rubbermaid totes. They happen to fit perfectly in the [...]
Dec 14 2007
The last two mornings have had the most spectacular sunrises.
This morning, the entire sky was puffy and pink and purple and red, stretching across the entire eastern horizon, with colors deepening across half an hour of my time. So spectacular that I didn’t even want to photograph it, because these things never come out like [...]
Dec 12 2007
One of the basic tenets of hosting non-sailors on your boat, especially when you’re liveaboards or cruisers, is “Never do anything differently than you normally do.” Well, this weekend, we absolutely exceeded ourselves in sticking to it.
My friends and colleagues Alec and Adriana, and their friend Geoff, came to visit us on the s/v Excellent [...]
Dec 04 2007
Moving aboard a boat is far more complicated than anyone told me it would be.
I mean, I knew about getting rid of stuff, I knew about consolidating, I knew about simplifying. I’m good there.
What I had no clue about was how to make my boat home.
I am a deeply devout homebody. Curling up on the [...]