Archive for December, 2009
Christmas travel as sailing analog
So I’ve been missing sailing in between being busy and not having the weather for it, and with Christmas now intruding on our time (yes, yes, I’m a veritable Scrooge, I know) I didn’t figure we’d be getting in any sea time for a couple of months. But it turns out that the Christmas travel [...]
Full StoryShips of Lights
I am constantly amazed at the energy and industry exhibited by fellow boaters at our marina. The forest of lighted masts and stays that have sprung up around the docks are a testament to boaters braving the frigid temperatures (ice in the slips! that’s two years in a row, bring on the global warming already!) [...]
Full StoryNo Room at the Inn
I think I might have mentioned here before that Mandy and I have, through what luck I do not know, tickets to the Vancouver Winter Olympics coming up here in only a couple of months. Specifically, we’re going to the luge, an event to which neither of us have any particular connection, and which doesn’t [...]
Full StoryBetter Laid Plans
One of the things I hope that I am increasingly getting used to is the need for the prudent mariner to occasionally make dramatic and substantial deviations from plans in order to accomodate changing conditions or reduce unforeseen risk. This is sometimes difficult to distinguish from the need to run calculated risks, which also seems [...]
Full StoryBaby, it’s cold outside
And getting colder yet, just in time for our scheduled haul-out next week. The good news is the sunshine; it’s going to be dry enough for painting. The bad news is the cold; the paint we are planning on applying has a minimum ambient application temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The forecast, admittedly long-range at [...]
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