Additional response from friends to 3/11:
(Please note recommendation for donations to relief effort below in red)
From a friend in Kobe, who checked our boat immediately after the earthquake/tsunami:
“Thank you very much for your kind email.
In K…
Day 11 – Harvey, LABoomtown CasinoIt was a beautiful day on the water…although the banks of the river were very ugly in most of the area we were in today. Industry everywhere. We are just a few miles away from the Mississippi River.&nb…
Stained glass window at Annette’s.Nancy and Sue clowning around. Are you feeling a little green today? Have you eaten your corned beef and cabbage? Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you! I can’t decide if it’s being retired or being a boater that makes ever…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day (Continued…)
What we fear most in the design cycle is getting so locked into a single concept that we miss a much better approach. That is why we drag out the preliminary end of the process, to try and make sure we look at all avenues. Although the previous riff on the FPB 112 was good, […]
We have been studying the motion of FPB64-3, Iron Lady, with an eye on what we are doing with the FPB 112. The difference uphill, between this and the previous 64s which do not have the swim step extension gives us some wonderful data. We shall shortly see how this works for ourselves, but for […]
and counting till the first day of spring!The snow is quickly melting. +10C temps today so I don’t expect to see any more white stuff on the ground when I get home. 😉 The only problem with that is the ground is soaked so much that it’s backed up into…
WEDNESDAYTOTAL MILES TRAVELED TODAY: 0 NMSUNRISE: 7:30 AM SUNSET 7:29 PMHIGH 80 LOW 64Since we have to turn the rental car in by 10:30, we were flying around like crazy. First spot we dropped off a bracket for a little spot welding repair, then made th…
I didn’t have a chance last night to update the blog, why you ask? Long day! 75 miles traveled fighting a very strong current the entire way. All said and done we put 12 hours on the engine yesterday (idling at lock was some of that time). I labele…
This morning we went out with Glenn, one of the owner of Golden Rock Divers, and enjoyed two really nice scuba dives. The first dive was at the Charles L. Brown, a 300’ former AT&T cable-laying ship that was purposefully sunk as a reef in 2003. B…
