OK, then Dame Vera Lynn!
And just to keep it legal, We'll Meet Again
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OK, then Dame Vera Lynn!
And just to keep it legal, We'll Meet Again
Miss Vera Lynn (3 words?)
We'll Meet Again
Congratulations on acing Wordle! I've had plenty of 2s, never got it in 1.
Congratulations Matt. Beautiful work!
I have a Vesper XB-6000 which I think is the same as the 8000 except that it doesn't have WiFi. I don't have an antenna splitter; the VHF uses the masthead antenna, and I have a second antenna on the...
Now this is interesting! Eight months later, I just discovered this discussion about insurance. I have Progressive also, but (as I posted in another thread) they said they couldn't cover me in...
Wow, I remember Plowshares . . . vaguely. Sorry to admit I didn't buy many books there.
Max
I heard a story years ago about an extremely well known Bay Area sailor, navigator and electronics whiz, who allegedly trained his rather large dog to sit on the high side of the boat in singlehanded...
I'm using this little guy. It's supposed to flash only when it's floating right side up. The first one I ordered kept flashing most of the time when it was upside down, so I complained to the vendor...
I cut a couple of "stirrups" out of 3/4" wood, drilled two holes in each, and tied a bowline through the holes at each end of a line about 8 feet long. I use a 5:1 tackle (more than I really need,...
Thanks Jackie for the correction and the cool photo! Mind if I download and use it? Full credit of course.
And that's a great video of wild and crazy Randall and Harmon. Is that the Byrds covering...
Um . . . Unless something's changed in the 6 years since I left, slips at South Beach are not transferable when a boat sells.
Hey Jackie, great writeup! I didn't know the full story of Sea Squirrel, nor that any of us had a close encounter with the rowing race. And I was wondering what those gorgeous leis were made of -- ti...
As of 19:45 tonight, Iniscaw is back in its Oceanside slip after a 26 day return trip. Sorry I didn't post more (or at all!) during both the race and the return. As some of the racers know, I had...
"Has something to do with a dragon." Peter Yarrow?
I was in touch with him too. Somehow it didn't click that I might have the same problem! I suppose I could finish, turn and burn. ;)
I've gotten hold of the application for a permit to anchor in Hanalei Bay. For our fleet the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation is waiving the requirement for a survey or inspection by a state...
I've never taken the "watertight" requirement literally. My hatchboards are tethered and have latches, but water could seep between them and around their edges. They do fit pretty snugly.
My...
Here are a few photos of one of my window covers, with just two of the four cleats in place. It occurs to me that a broken window probably wouldn't fall away completely, so who knows how many of the...
I remember that discussion well. I made my covers out of plywood I had lying around, so I think one is 1/2" nom. and the other is 5/8". I epoxied a few 1x2 or 2x2 strips the short way across each...
Jackie, we did have a Richmond - South Beach race for a few years. I think it replaced the East Bay - Estuary after the time there were complaints from a couple of ships coming in to Oakland, plus...
Small world! I believe the Coales (Frank was the father) were neighbors and churchmates of my family in Ladera. And a family friend of my wife Rebecca Alzofon was Jim Wilson, who was on the...
Skip, so let me get this straight. They side-towed the dock out with them and used it as ballast to heel the boat? Brilliant!
FWIW: Long, long ago, for a year or two when CYC was not available and we started at GGYC, there was another course for the In the Bay Race, the name change due (IIRC) to the fact that we couldn't...
I recently bought a Davis Mk 25 sextant. 40 years ago I managed to work out a sight or two while crossing the Atlantic, then promptly forgot how. 20 years ago I took a good Cel Nav class at Club...
#5, cockpit drain.
Lots of mice here in the desert. Synthia's trap reminds me of a couple that we've built, following a design that Rebecca found on YouTube. It uses the same half-liter water...