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I really thought we were done at lug wrench! Then I thought maybe a spare tire is a hiking aid, which is funny, and half of us probably have one, but couldn't get it to work with the other clues.
Heavy things at the auto parts store: Hitch ball?
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner! A trailer hitch ball is the correct answer. Attached to a knotted line, a hitch ball can be used as a lead line for measuring depth. Also attached to a line, a hitch ball works as a temporary anchor for small craft like a kayak, inflatable raft or SUP. Or as a kellet on a bigger anchor. As a mast step, a hitch ball comes into its own, and allows masts to not only rotate, but also be canted (raked) to windward as well, something many hi-tech racers, even Vendee Globe IMOCA 60's and Jules Verne maxi trimarans are doing these days.
A hitch ball is a connector, to a boat trailer hitch, and allows the driver to make his boat trailer change direction. Lastly, though not recommended, you can put a hitch ball in either pocket of your hiking jacket and be 10-12 pounds heavier on the weather rail.
Here's the promised prize: A photo of PHILPOTT's tasty new breakfast food "brown sugar coconut ice cream by Ruthie, the pastry chef at the Madison (Wisconsin) Concourse hotel. OMG! It definitely gives Marianne’e macapuna a run for it’s $$! So delish I had it instead of breakfast."
PS: Phillipe (PJ) stopped by CBC this afternoon to collect his Marianne's Macapuno Icecream prize from a previous trivia about the USS MACON airship falling from the sky off Pt. Sur. Having lost 20 pounds on his recent 6,000 mile, 35 day shakedown on CHANGABANG, I reckoned a bowl of Macapuno and some triple ginger snaps would do the boy good.
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Aww, Skip, we all count on you. And for more than just ginger snaps and ice cream. Down there at the CBC you keep the sailing world spinning on its axis.
When her boat blew over in a recent Cat.2 hurricane, a spreader was broken and had to be removed, and there was no one who could assist, Trish showed her typical solo sailor creativity
Interesting:
When Trish climbed a ladder to service her broken spreader she was demonstrating SS creativity.
When I climbed a ladder to replace a jib halyard block, I, got SCOLDED by the sleddog!!
So I guess dangerous behavior is OK for the girls
Unless I misread, it appears Whitall on SPARROW has lost his 2 downwind sails, an A-2 spinnaker and Code 0, and is now down to "working sails." He reports this loss will give him more time to read. My question would be, does SPARROW have a pole to wing out a headsail? If not, getting downwind around the World may prove tedious.
Poor Whitall for losing his downwind sails. Poor Howard for being discriminated against. Call the SSS HR department! These round the world sailors! It's like entering a casino: better to just throw your sails overboard upon boarding. I am really enjoying Whitall's writing. He's got a whole lot of reading loaded onto his Kindle, but it's dense stuff. Maybe he shoulda taken a couple of LaDonna's bodice rippers for a different flavor book.
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Never a dull moment at CBC when the phone rings with a robo call from the Capitola police advising to shelter in place until further notice, "a mountain lion has been sighted on your street."
Being a cat advocate I naturally don't want to see the big kitty shot, as there is a school just up the street. I found the kitty a block away under some outside stairs, where a ranger in attendance advised me to leave slowly so not to spook the cat, and they were going to get the "trank gun."
I'm guessing our local PD department keeps a "trank gun" in it's arsenal, every since a mountain lion came down the dry creek a few years ago, and sauntered past the Shadowbrook. In search of Marianne's Macapuno perhaps? Word is out.
Meeow.
PS at 6:45 p.m. the robo call in an automated, robotic voice reported "the mountain lion problem has been mitigated." "You are free to end shelter-in-place."
"Mitigated?" Hey Jackie, has the steaming light issue been mitigated?
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This fine little ship recently appeared at Santa Cruz Harbor. She's got a retracting carbon bowsprit, frac rig with masthead spinny halyard, carbon fiber mast and boom, spade rudder, and sugar scooped stern.
The Sur-prize will go to the first to tell us what she is:
1) A Lido 17
2) A Harbor 22+
3) A J-5.8
4) A Rogue Wave
5) A Columbia 23
6) A Scamp 18
7) A modified West Wight Potter
7) I don't know what this is, but it's not a Lido 17 nor a Scamp 18.
8) I know what this is, but it's not on the list.
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