So as it turns out that navigation stuff is quite useful. Johnathan Walpole, a BCU coach from Oregon, posted something quite interesting in the mile-long thread on the Netart’s Bay incident from Lumpy Water that really got me thinking. Whenever there is a symposium, or any skills training event, students flock in droves to classes …
Category Archive: Nautical
Nov
18
Bio-luminescent waves in Southern California
One of my google alerts caught my eye. Most of the time it is SPAM, but this actually hit the cool meter. Bio luminescent waves in Southern California. Cool Man! This brief video is a short boarder rocking it on bio-luminescent waves in San Diego. This is mission bay, a kayaker at night got this …
May
16
Finished the Patrick O’Brian Aubrey Maturin Series
For those that don’t know Patrick O’Brian’s works, and who may not have read my other posts on Aubrey/Maturin, I will quickly summarize. Patrick O’Brian over the course of several decades wrote 21 books based on Lord Cochrane an active frigate captain in the Napoleonic wars. The novels depict the life and adventures of two …
Mar
27
Los Angeles Times Altered Oceans Flash Usability
It doesn’t happen very often, but I thought I might like to write about a good Flash experience lest I be labeled a Luddite. Derrick Mayoleth’s blog listed this LA Times Article. This flash piece despite the fact that it does pretty much take over the whole content area is visually impressive enough to make …
Sep
21
Leave her Johnny Leave Her
??”Rotten meat and a weevily bread leave her johnny, leave her, pump or drown the old man says, it’s time for us to leave, her. The voyage is done and the winds don’t blow, it’s time for us to leave her. No more around cape horn we’ll go, leave her Johnny leave her… “?? From …
Jun
07
Nestor
When I first got into kayaking I was thrown by how young I was compared to everyone else. I am still a young pup compared to the average age of paddlers in WMCKA. Alex Pak is probably the closest to my age and attitude towards paddling that I’ve come across. But of course Alex is …
Apr
25
The thinning of the blood
In the icelandic sagas, the characters have particular concern for the thinning of the blood from their fathers. Sons tried to measure up to fathers. And it was considered very grave if men failed the muster of their genealogy. Or if their fathers were particularly bad men, they did everything possible to break the bad …
Mar
10
The Inner Jack Aubrey
I’ve been reading the Patrick O’Brian Aubrey/Maturin series, of the _Master and Commander Far Side of the World_ movie fame. I can truthfully say I like the movie. Though the story in the film has an incindental if not tangential relationship to the texts it purports to be translated from. But the actual novel, Far …
