what to do in Greenland…
Some science you might have missed, the felon lashes out, and why EVs make sense… Maybe my favorite ski and sail channel… Some cool photo art as well.
Weather
and so, another “H” season is now history…
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 …
yesterday being a day off of sorts…
I mostly spent yesterday watching the wall to wall coverage of the impending hurricane Milton. What I should have been doing was installing a couple of vents on the Islander. The main take-away from the media coverage is that 99% of the folks involved did not really understand hurricanes or ‘grok’ the nature of killer …
one storm down and twenty or so to go…
Yep, once again, I’ve found myself sitting inside a boat while all hell breaks loose outside. Tropical Storm Ernesto was surprisingly nasty and, while not a cat 5 hurricane, seemed to be just as kickass as Maria was. In hindsight, we really should have gone to our preferred hurricane hole rather than stick it out …
the same old drill…
As the wags are wont to say, “Shit happens”. Of course, sitting on a boat in the Caribbean during the middle of hurricane season one has to expect to have to run through the getting ready for a hurricane two-step. So it does go. So, we’re getting both boats ready for a possible storm, keeping …
Just another day watching the weather…
Luckily, it appears that Hurricane Beryl is not going to cause too much grief for those of us in America’s Paradise. One of my favorite tools in my “H” ting arsenal is “How close can it get?” which tells me that Beryl will come somewhere around 234-miles away from us. That said, shit happens and …
It’s “H” season and I’m not where I want to be…
Got up this morning to this… Now, as I’ve said many times before, the best place to be when”H” season comes around is sitting in a sidewalk cafe, self-medicating with a bottle of Ricard pastis and a pitcher of cold water. Failing that, one should be in some out-of-the-way place where “H” season is not …
a tool I should have bought years ago…
A common issue when doing rigging work on older boats is that, more often than not, previous owners and various marine tradesmen have made questionable tool decisions. A quick example is dealing with a Sta-Lok fitting that has been mangled because someone used the worst tool known to man to tighten or loosen it. Yeah, …
trying to reason with hurricane season…
Stress inducing.
a whole lot of rain…
We caught the lower edge of Tropical Storm Phillipe which was mostly just rain. The good news was that down here we’ve been in a drought situation so rain is no bad thing in general. That said, for a lot of folks being flooded they might decide to differ. We’d actually been hoping for a …