Open Thread TU 30 JUL 19
Submitted by QMS on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 4:00am
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Because the winds of change keep blowing thru our minds.
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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.
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For your listening pleasure -- Ella and Satchmo...
[video:https://youtu.be/gxrws7omOHQ
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[video:https://youtu.be/lnXLVTi_m_M]
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Amazing display of flying fish once into the stream
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Porpoises riding bow wake, just having fun. They swim upside-down and jump with a grin.
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Navigating by a full moon 4 nights. Thanks Obama.
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QMS What about
[video:http[s://youtu.be/zBvjXhUSUpU]
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Open thread, do your thang. Can post, but barely host.
Toast!
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And Bonnie
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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
Thats a beautiful yacht, QMS,
a Hylas?
Thanks for the welcome vicarious sea breezes and feelings; and, great music. Happy heeling.
Actually, a sister ship
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.
Look who is sailing too: dear lovely Greta Thunberg
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.
Go greta
Thanks mimi. That’s so cool.
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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.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
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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Hola Quirky Magic Sailor! Read, admired yacht, photos, story,
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.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Yeah, Bonnie was pretty high at the time
sailing on a song, flying with the fishes
Brings to mind a couple of flicks ...
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
and
Captain Crunch
That Sequoia should last you a very long time.
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.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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NE corner of Multnomah Park Cemetary
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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Thank you. It appears that some Redwoods were planted
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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Thank you! Just walked in from sinking the stump.
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Yes, this is real
any guesses?
Umm...
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
guess the state
Kansas. Overland Park, to be precise.
edit: Florida.
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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
... I... just appalled.
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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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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.