Open Thread TU 30 JUL 19

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 4:00am

Because the winds of change keep blowing thru our minds.

Mission: bring 54' yacht from Beaufort, SC to Portsmouth, RI -- 720 nautical miles. Motor-sail east until picking up the gulf stream, take a left. Ride favorable current north, adding up to 4 knots headway at times. Round Hatteras way offshore with lightning on both horizons east and west.

For your listening pleasure -- Ella and Satchmo...

[video:https://youtu.be/gxrws7omOHQ

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[video:https://youtu.be/lnXLVTi_m_M]

Amazing display of flying fish once into the stream

Porpoises riding bow wake, just having fun. They swim upside-down and jump with a grin.

Navigating by a full moon 4 nights. Thanks Obama.

QMS What about

[video:http[s://youtu.be/zBvjXhUSUpU]

Open thread, do your thang. Can post, but barely host.

Toast!

And Bonnie

[video:https://youtu.be/x4tJiyU_gjY]

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Submitted by QMS on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 7:44am

Off to do battle with the heat dragons

armored only with cool thoughts and a shady hat.

Hope y'all find some goodness out there.

QMS = quickly melting sanity

Submitted by smiley7 on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 7:51am

Thats a beautiful yacht, QMS,

a Hylas?

The first map of the Gulf Stream produced by Benjamin Franklin in the 1770's

Thanks for the welcome vicarious sea breezes and feelings; and, great music. Happy heeling.

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 8:05am

Actually, a sister ship

@smiley7

Pictured is a 52' Little Harbor Custom Yacht named Black Tie. Ours was a 54' LHCY named Hell's Belles on this trip. Both are of similar vintage, built in Taiwan in the early 90's. The hull forms are a bit different -- the 52 faster with a 'whale bottom', the 54 more stable with a modified keel. Both center-boarders. I commissioned all these beauties for Ted Hood in the 90's, flying to Asia to QC in final phases. Then the final fitting out in Portsmouth, RI. Now they are coming back for re-fits and brokerage. I manage them now as the Yacht Doctor.

Submitted by mimi on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 9:04am

Look who is sailing too: dear lovely Greta Thunberg

@QMS
Greta Thunberg to sail Atlantic for climate conferences

Who could deny to say, she got guts and brains.

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable". Lucius Annaeus Seneca

PS I hope I didn't violate some copyrights posting her video. Please advise if I did and I erase it.

Submitted by magiamma on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 1:32pm

Go greta

@mimi
Thanks mimi. That’s so cool.

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Submitted by Lookout on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 8:16am

Sailing on a summer breeze...

skipping over the ocean like a stone...

Looks like a lovely trip...didn't realize you're such an experienced sailor. Stay cool today if you can.

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Submitted by detroitmechworks on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 8:27am

So, got a tree stump...

Now, I know, big deal, right?

Well, it's my anvil stump. I'm really happy with it, and the symbolism involved is pretty epic.

First off, it's from public land in Portland. Secondly, I went through the proper channels of asking permission before taking it, so I feel good about it. Thirdly, it's from a graveyard. Not only that it's from a grave tree that was being cut down even though there was nothing really wrong with it. Just was in the way of the street. Fourth, the wood is Giant Sequoia, and smells gorgeous.

Just need to sink it in the next couple days, and my forge will be Done. Yes, I'll provide a picture. Just don't want to ruin it before the work is DONE. (Also not going to start work while everybody else is asleep. The minute my neighbor's kids start screaming, however, all bets are off.)

Also need to check the gas fittings before I actually fire it up. Safety gear in place... oy, a lot of work to do it RIGHT. (Yes, there's a fire extinguisher. Charged, ready and on the forge. Just in case.)

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg]

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 9:03am

Hola Quirky Magic Sailor! Read, admired yacht, photos, story,

@detroitmechworks
and the obvious competencies. Haven't started listening yet. Bonnie with L.George & John Hammond is an unusual combo. Is that, I wonder, the session they did on live radio stoned out of their gourds. I'll soon find out, won't I. Yep, recall the song, + Freebo.

Have a great one.

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Submitted by QMS on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 2:52pm

Yeah, Bonnie was pretty high at the time

@enhydra lutris

sailing on a song, flying with the fishes

Brings to mind a couple of flicks ...

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

[video:https://youtu.be/vL55GvEHisI]

and

Captain Crunch

Submitted by Dawn's Meta on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 4:57am

That Sequoia should last you a very long time.

@detroitmechworks The wood is bug and water resistant.

Just a piece of nostalgia for me: do you know where in Portland this tree was growing? How tall?

My dad planted a lot of the public places trees especially Sequoias in Portland in the 60s and 70s. A few I can name: East and West Moreland parks; the Washington Park Zoo and Arboretum; McGloughlin Blvd; Two public golf courses - Progress Downs and East Moreland; Laurelhurst and Gabriel parks; and many others. He had a plan for Sunset Highway before it was widened to plant Sequoias to Hillsboro for the CO2 sequestration they provide and the shade and air filtering.

His last project was helping to bring the Leach Botanical Garden into the Portland Park system instead of turning it into condos after the owners died. His funeral service was there.

It would be indeed and interesting legacy to know that one of those trees is now the base for your forge, where new creations can be made.

Thank you.

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Submitted by detroitmechworks on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 6:42am

NE corner of Multnomah Park Cemetary

@Dawn's Meta However, I believe this tree was planted in the Nineteen Thirties. There are quite a few tall redwoods and Sequoias in the park. This one was right in the NE corner of the Cemetery, and most of it was taken to give to the elephants at the zoo. (Direct from the gardener. Apparently they really like Sequoia.)

I was actually pretty shocked how good the wood was for this purpose when I started researching it. (Fire Resistant too...)

https://www.oregonmetro.gov/historic-cemeteries/multnomah-park-cemetery

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Submitted by Dawn's Meta on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 10:22am

Thank you. It appears that some Redwoods were planted

@detroitmechworks in Oregon and Portland parks over 150 years ago. My dad must have been inspired.

Some he planted in our own yard, grew within thirty years to be giants. The first ten years, things are slow, but with good moisture after that they put on tremendous growth each year.

They are fantastic creatures.

Best wishes for your forge.

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Submitted by detroitmechworks on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 10:58am

Thank you! Just walked in from sinking the stump.

@Dawn's Meta Sweating like a hog. Grabbed one more piece for materials, because they chopped the rest of it up yesterday. Right now it's serving as my rest bench. Got the Triangle situated nicely. No foot position shifts needed to go from the anvil to the forge. Going to take a little break before testing the gas valves. Two hours of hard labor is enough for a short breather, and anybody who says differently doesn't understand how humans work.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 1:46pm

Yes, this is real

any guesses?

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 3:39pm

Umm...

@gjohnsit

my guess is the state of the district of columbia, even though it's not a real state, but the realist-ate the borders. so it could be a state of mind anywhere

Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 4:02pm

guess the state

@gjohnsit

Kansas. Overland Park, to be precise.

edit: Florida.

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Submitted by detroitmechworks on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 9:29pm

... I... just appalled.

@gjohnsit I'm seeing arguments against and FOR sex with children. What fucking alternate nightmare hellhole did I just walk into? What's fucking next, the actual pope claiming that it's a sacrament? Considering the way he treats the accused diddlers... this is now in the realm of possibility. I'm... appalled.

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Submitted by dystopian on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 3:22pm

Have a great sail!

Hey QMS - Sounds like a wonderful ride! As a birder, we all must pilgrimage to the Gulf Stream. There are a set of birds found there you cannot see anywhere else in the U.S. Yes I have been there and done that. But was not on a day-birding trip like most out of Cape Hatteras. It was a failed biz venture involving a boat. A 110' New England scalloper bought at auction by a buddy (drug seizure), was the highliner out of New Bedford for a while, once was named Blue Dove, not sure of original name, it was seized twice actually.

Besides some work inside the vessel I helped move it Charleston SC to Dania FL, via the Gulf Stream. Whence our southward progression went from our 8 knots to 4. But I was in bird heaven loving it. Black-capped Petrels, Audubon's Shearwater, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Bridled Tern, White-tailed Tropicbird, Spotted Dolphins, saw a huge Leatherback Seaturtle, (lot's of other turtles), a big Hammerhead... Was the 4 day trip of a lifetime for a birder.

We stopped one day out there threw ropes off and went swimming about 60 miles offshore in mile deep water. Weird feeling when you know 'there is no bottom', drifting at 4 knots north...

I drove from 6 to 10 a.m. each morning while everyone else slept. Sperry autopilot, so not much to it. But got pulled over while I was driving off Broward Co., FL doing 7 knots. The crew razzed me for that. Boarded 40 miles offshore by USCG, Customs, DEA, Broward Sherrif, Immigration, etc. the whole gang and their 100 lb. drug sniffing German Sheppard. They probably recognized the boat from priors despite the new paint. Ahhhh wonderful Gulf Stream memories...

Smooth sailing with the wind at your back! Have a great one!

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Submitted by QMS on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 3:42pm

You got off lite

@dystopian

With all of those heavies on board, it's a wonder they didn't tip you over. Yeah, the stream with the little sargasso sea islands are a wonder. Their own little ecosystems, spinning along at 4 knots. Cool stuff.