Random thoughts and rants on boat design, boat building, and other boat bits for those in the 99%...
Moral enhancement as a cure for Covid-19, proof positive that kids are not immune, Scalzi with some football news, and in the "This is not OK" department...
Here's a design that just, to me at least, looks cool.
The best answer I've heard in ages, what passes for school days with tRumps virus, and this week in the war on science trenches...
Kurt Hughes (AKA multihull designer guy) with an interesting take on a tiny house.
A distinction of note, something very scary, and in the "Heinous election fuckery" department...
Stumpy Nubs tells how.
John Scalzi on genre canons, Krugman with dire warnings, and EBM with something about tRump and wet dreams...
How about a mini cruising scow?
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A bit of good news, a point well made, some reading about the big lie, and a funeral of note...
Reuel Parker's 45-foot scow is bigger than I need but I still find myself wondering about it.
Not surprising at all, regarding hydroxychloroquine, and in the "Know your enemy" department...
Michael from Proa File has been working on a very cool fishing boat.
Science (or lack of science) in Florida, George Carlin still making sense, and dumbest man in congress reaps his karma...
I've never been a big fan of licensing users of boats (or users of guns for that matter) but nothing focuses my attention on the idea that there actually might be a need for some sort of required boater education while I sit my boat watching other folks prepare for a possible hurricane.
On one hand, I'll admit, it's sort of entertaining seeing how others react to the idea that a real-honest-to gawd-storm just might be up-close-and-personal. Face it, folks of the inspired tyro boat handling and anchoring brigade seem to totally lose it when a bit of real-world danger becomes part of the mix and they go into cluster-fuck mode and flip out.
Then again, it's only entertaining for a moment or two and the overall effect is just depressing. We all have our days of shame and seeing someone going through one underscores the "that could be me" factor. Most of us learn through experience and, for most of us, by making mistakes of the "what does not kill us makes us smarter" sort.
Then again, most folks could avoid most of the traumatic crap of coming into an anchorage with a possible "H" ting on the way by doing a bit of study beforehand and having a semblance of a plan in hand. Two books that will help are Fatty Goodlander's "Creative Anchoring" and "Storm Proofing your Boat, Gear, and Crew". Seriously, you don't really want the stigma of being "That Idiot" who did that "Stupid Thing".
Need I say more?
Listening to a plethora of Bee Gees covers (who'd have ever thought?)
So it goes...
Today in the "Disproportionate force without provocation files", some "essential" workers that you might want to keep in mind, and the question I keep asking myself...
So, yeah.
Some needful reading on the ongoing plan to kill the USPS, a good cause that could use your support, and in the "Why am I not surprised" department...
Looking at the various storm models for the 92L invest was somewhat depressing as the GFS models have the storm passing as a hurricane just a kiss north of us while the ECMWF has the storm passing a bit to our south albeit not as a hurricane.
