A depressingly good point, some more Panama canal news, and Mr Zip could be your connection… OK, I’ll admit that the current state of tings in the US of A is, at best, fraught. The current downside is that it’s really hard to get back to doing the needful boat projects that need to be …
An important cartography lesson, something regarding homelessness, and, as someone born and bred in Los Angeles, I found this post rather compelling… Time’s a funny thing. It seems like just yesterday when we were in Las Palmas provisioning for our transatlantic crossing to Martinique aboard LM2. This morning, I woke up thinking that I need …
A needful read, Dave Z opines on plywood boat building, and Trinidad declares a state of emergency… Yeah, interesting times and it’s only day two into 2025 but I’m already avoiding my daily scan of the news. Time to get to doing.
Reading LGM this morning about Oaxacan Dog Adoption. I realized it’s been a while since I did a link to the cruising vet who is still doing good work. I’m sure that both Oaxacan Dog Adoption and Chuffed could use your support and a little goes a long way. Just sayin’… Today is Giving Tuesday
Yep, it’s time to say adios to the 2024 “H” season and I’m currently doing the sorta/kinda happy dance. Sorta/kinda because with climate change the “H” season might have some surprises in store for us. There’s also the fact that the new government which takes power in the new year has promised to either dismantle …
Here’s a fun fact that occurred to me yesterday… Most carrots available for sale here in the USVI seem to come from Canada. Here’s another factoid you might want to consider… A lot of Caribbean islands buy groceries for resale in the USVI. Which is to say that, when shopping for a can of tomatoes, …
I’ll admit that watching the current POTUS-elect fill his cabinet with the execrable and dimmest folks he can find is just a bit unsettling. Of course, the real unsettling part of the mix is about 50% of the population of the US of A thinks he’s doing a great job. Apparently, I live in a …
Just another day in the time of flying excrement… Read More »
For starters, it’s a monohull somewhere between 26 and 38 feet long and, while there are a few outliers, the average falls somewhere around 30 feet. By current “Yachting” standards it is too old to be fashionable and its age is somewhere on the wrong side of 25. The main thing you can say about …
I know how I feel but Chuck Wendig says it so much better than I can so you should read his take on this whole damn clusterfuck. For the future, as it stands, VolksCruiser is going to be mostly about lifeboats and getting gone. Deal with that however you care to.
So, less than a week till we see whether the current ball of airborne excrement hits the rotating blades or not, Which, when you think about it, is not all that different than what we do every day during “H” season which is, mostly, just wait and hope. Just for the record the whole wait …
