Check out the published archive now and in the coming weeks. I am starting to flesh it out with .pdf files of all of my published pieces, where applicable (in some cases due to copyrights, I have to link to the website of whatever publication printed it). Anyway, the latest Yacht Essentials article I wrote is the first to go up there today, with more to come. The Matt Rutherford piece from Yachting World will be up soon. Stay tuned.
Friday Column: Observations from the International Airport
All of this must be finished by December 29, before we pick up Clint at that far-away Stockholm airport that I cannot remember the name of (Skavsta) and take a bus and a ferry to the Finnish island of Åland where Johanna lives and where we are attending a New Year’s Eve party only after we run a 10K in the town of Mariehamn whereby afterwards I am expected to attend a traditional Finnish sauna with Mia, Johanna and Clint, and naked.
An email exchange about celestial nav.
I was just reading your article in the magazine "All at Sea" and had a couple questions. First I haven't done celestial in forever and thought the pub was 229 not 249. Am I misremembering, more than likely lol!? I was interested if you wrote other articles on this and if I could get a copy of them possibly. Please let me know.
Friday Column: Home
I'Il should start calling this the Friday Evening Column. It is still Friday.
I went to the mall today with Mom. It is December 23. Not good planning.
Home again. Really, really nice to be here. I got in late Sunday night (or early Monday morning depending on your perspective). It is chilly here now, but not cold, certainly not cold enough for December, but it feels better than the tropical Caribbean sun.
Friday Column: Can I get some freaking real milk please!?
(Yes it is late, but it is still Friday).
Why is it that 'standard' is so sub-standard?
Yesterday in St. Lucia, Mia and I were enjoying my secret Santa present at the Bread Basket, one of the myriad cafes in Rodney Bay Marina, where the ARC finish festivities are still going on (the secret Santa, by the way, is a disproportionately enjoyable activity that we ARC staff participate in each year. Each person is allowed to spend $30EC dollars on some sort of knick knack to give to a person whose name you draw from a hat.
Sub-three-hour marathon (...or trying to get on the Grinder Board). Day 7.
Hilly beach run v.2. St. Lucia.
Another midday run today that started at about 10:15. I took an alternate route to the beach (sort of), and ended up in the same place. The route was the same as before - up and over two rather large hills, one being macadam, the other rocky and barren, just the type of rugged trail that I like to run on best.
'Spindrift of Jersey,' and 'Handling Breakages at Sea, Part II'
| Spindrift of Jersey enact a steering repair at sea. Photo courtesy Chris Austin, Spindrift. |
'Cruinneag III' and Handling Breakages at Sea, from ARC 2011
| Cruineag 3, a classic wooden ketch built in Scotland in the 1930s. (Photo courtesy of cruinneag.com) |
Check out a new, two-part feature on the ARC website that I posted this afternoon about handling breakages at sea. I particularly enjoyed Cruinneag III's attitude on the whole thing. An excerpt from today's story:
Sub-three-hour marathon (...or trying to get on the Grinder Board). Day 6.
| Rodney Bay to another beach. |
Hot again. Not like yesterday (I ran after 5pm, so it was mostly in the shade with a low sun). We first went to Pigeon Island with Clare and Alain and ate lunch at Jambe de Bois before hiking to the top of the island. I drank a big bottle of coconut water that I shared (a little) with the others. We took photos. Guys on the beach where I ran to told me to be careful and run with a friend because 'there are bad people in the forest.'
Stats: 5.3 miles / 46:30 / 8:46 m.p.min / 1:54 off the pace.
