Torqeedo works. Check.
Tiller pilots work. Three Raymarine. One Pelagic. Check.
Tiller pilots work. Three Raymarine. One Pelagic. Check.
Florence on course for the Carolinas. Check.
If the most recent GRIB were to be accurate, and in the current science it is far too early to know, I might have a great sail late next week riding the winds on Florence’s south side.
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I slept well on the port quarter berth last night,
After fitting and testing the Torqeedo and the tiller pilots this morning, I biked to a super market and bought yoghurt for lunch, some blueberries and raspberries for my oatmeal tomorrow morning and a carton of half tea/half lemonade.
The tea/lemonade came from a refrigerated case and was still cold when four biked miles later I arrived at the condo. I drank a lot. It was wonderful.
The condo complex has a swimming pool, Not Olympic size, but big enough to swim laps. I have not swum much for many years. Maybe the twenty-six hour swim took the edge off. Yet the last three days I have used the pool. No one else seems to. Swimming was unexpectedly hard. It should not have been unexpected. I know that if you don’t use muscles, you lose them, and swimming obviously uses different muscles than doing push-ups or climbing stairs.
Hilton Head is for me a naturally healthy place. I walked a mile or two today, biked nine miles, and swam maybe a quarter mile, plus lifting and twisting Toqeedo and tiller pilots.
Hilton Head is for me a naturally healthy place. I walked a mile or two today, biked nine miles, and swam maybe a quarter mile, plus lifting and twisting Toqeedo and tiller pilots.
We are animals and I like being one,
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I don’t eat much.
Carol says I eat like a bird and when I can that is true. My choice of breakfast is uncooked oatmeal with trail mix of nuts, seeds and fruit. My lunch is yoghurt with the same trail mix, A lot of birdlike fruit and nuts and seeds.
However, the heat here--temperatures around 90F with a ‘Feels like 100º--reduces my appetite to almost zero. I am always thirsty. Never hungry. So tonight’s dinner is two gin and tonics, a few handfuls of peanuts, and blueberries and raspberries,
