I remember being in college in the late 1960s. It was the first time away from home for most of us. An exciting thing was to get a “care package” from home, a take on the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywher e humanitarian organi…
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January 10, 2013; still at Gulfport, FL
Thursday: It has been some time since we posted. We haven’t been doing much other than getting a few things done on the boat. After 3 days with Charlie, the electrician, being here we finally have a working inverter system a…
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It Is America’s Cup Season and Time To Ogle
Your SetSail team will be reporting next week from Down Under. If we find ourselves with spare time we’ll see if we can get a look at the 72s trailing on Auckland harbor. This America’s Cup promises to be the most interesting ever. Unbelievable speeds, intense competition, and wonderful technology. Even if you preferred the […]
Can A Non-Planing Hull Like the FPB Operate Efficiently at Post-Planing Speeds?
Over the years we have had many tools with which to predict performance, some more accurate than others. With time, and real world experience, it has been possible to some degree to fine tune the computer output to match experience. When applied to the FPBs, results have been satisfactory: witness the performance claims of both […]
Home Friday
Barring any further complications Al should be coming home on Friday. I will be bringing him home in our new to us ’09 Toyota Matrix. Al is feeling much better but he will be returning to KGH in 5-8 weeks for some prostate surgery. This will be to…
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013
1/1/2013 through 1/7/2013COMPASS CAY, BIG MAJORS TO LITTLE FARMERS CAYWith the stormy weather gone the day was filled with brilliantly sunny skies, hampering the recovery for some of those young partiers from the night before. The rest of us spen…
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013
1/1/2013 through 1/7/2013COMPASS CAY, BIG MAJORS TO LITTLE FARMERS CAYWith the stormy weather gone the day was filled with brilliantly sunny skies, hampering the recovery for some of those young partiers from the night before. The rest of us spen…
January heatwave
A south wind is blowing in excess of 25 Knots and the forecast for the next couple of days is around 10º C on the positive side! The ice on the bay is starting to look rotten.
Donald has visitors….. (webcam image)
Brunswick Bicycle Thief Strikes Again
After my bike was stolen a couple of months ago, we locked them up to our boat. The problem with that is they’d move as the docklines stretched and chafe against the boat. We decided to move them back up to the pavilion a couple of weeks ag…
