Were the above a sales graph, reading from left to right, the company would be in serious trouble, but I trust you will recognize it as GANNET’s 2017 track that reads from lower right to upper left, Durban, South Africa to Marathon, Florida, with two stops: St. Helena and St. Lucia. Day’s runs total 7746 miles for the year. 23339 miles since leaving San Diego in 2014.
Although it was not an intended goal, since leaving Darwin, Australia, GANNET has sailed 211º of longitude--Darwin is 131ºE, Marathon 80ºW--almost two thirds of the way around the world, with only three stops.
I have changed the Yellowbrick tracking default page to one named 2018, now blank. I am back on the little boat a week tomorrow and don’t yet know what lines will be drawn on it.
I worked out 57 times, far fewer than the 100 I aim for, but higher than usual for a year in which I cross oceans. Of those 57, 42 came in the last four months of the year. I did not workout aboard GANNET in Marathon because of the heat. I think working out there would likely have resulted in death by push-up.
I estimate that I did 9050 push-ups and crunches during the year. Only an estimate because I now frequently do 80 pushups in my first set, instead of my age of 76, but not always. I also have started taking the stairs two at a time during my twenty flights a day. One at a time was getting too easy.
I close the three circles on my Apple watch activity app at least six days a week. Sometimes I take Sunday off.
Two other noteworthy events:
I started wearing hearing aids. A mixed review. They are comfortable, unobtrusive. They definitely enable me to hear better, but sometimes I would rather not. Fortunately mine are controlled by an iPhone app and I can cut off with a tap the noise of the world when it becomes too intrusive.
The other is the probability that we are buying the condo on Hilton Head Island.
The list of books read in the past six months is below.
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books read July-December 2017
THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH Arturo Perez-Reverte
DEATH OF KINGS Bernard Cornwall
PEDRO PÁRAMO Juan Rulfo
THE FALL Albert Camus
FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX Nathaniel H. Bishop
WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS Ray Bradbury
PANDORA’S LAB Paul A. Offit
JACKPOT Jason Ryan
THE PAGAN LORD Bernard Cornwall
THE EMPTY THRONE Bernard Cornwall
THE MOVIEGOER Walker Percy
SHADOW COUNTRY Peter Mattiessen
WARRIORS OF THE STORM Bernard Cornwall
THE FLAME BEARER Bernard Cornwall
A LEGACY OF SPIES John le Carré
BRAVE NEW WORLD Aldous Huxley
HUE 1968 Mark Bowden
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS Joan Didion
ALI Jonathon Eig
RAGTIME E. L. Doctorow
GRANT Ron Chernow
TREKKA ROUND THE WORLD John Guzzwell
ALL THAT YOU’VE SEEN HERE IS GOD Bryan Doerries
THE ODYSSEY Homer/Emily Wilson
THE FRINGES OF POWER John Colville
BRAVE COMPANIONS David McCullough
AN ELEPHANT FOR ARISTOTLE L. Sprague de Camp
THE FLEET THAT HAD TO DIE Richard Hough
