I am absolutely certain that you get your money’s worth from this journal and now, at no extra charge, today only, I am throwing in the secret to happiness. I expect that you are going to find that you already knew it
I thank James for the link.
Not watching news on my big screen television on GANNET it was not until Carol mentioned that we were going off daylight time that I thought of it. It would not have been a problem. All my devices, except the Kindle, automatically changed themselves. With the change sunrise is now around 6 am instead of 7, which is good, but sunset is now just before 5 pm rather than 6, which means I now need—notice the ‘need’—to go on deck and start sipping at 4 instead of 5. The sun is low enough so that GANNET’s deck falls into the shadow of the neighboring behemoth before 3 pm and I wear a long sleeved shirt and Levis on deck.
While San Diego has eternal spring, the past few days have felt cooler here along the coast. The ocean off California is never warm, but the water temperature has dropped since summer cooling the wind that blows in from the ocean.
A Rustoleum clarification.
At Home Depot last week to buy some flat black to paint the carbon fiber bowsprit I noticed for the first time that Rustoleum has a line of marine paints. I checked with Kent of Small Boat Restoration who originally brought Rustoleum to my attention and he does indeed use the marine Rustoleum, which is said to cover more different kinds of surfaces and have better UV resistance than the standard paint. In my ignorance I used standard on the interior, which won’t matter, and on the bow sprit. A flat white inside. Flat black on the sprit. I will see how the black lasts. Repainting the sprit takes only a few minutes.
In the November issue of LATITUDE 38 which you can read online I answer the unanswerable, ‘Why I sail’. None of this will be new to those who have been reading this journal for a while. The essay is found under ‘Sightings’ and will be on the Lectronic Latitudes site sometime this week. In a month I will add it to the ‘articles’ page of the main site.
The photos are test shots from a GoPro Hero 8 Black that arrived Friday. The top one is of the mouth of the San Diego River flood control channel. The marina off to the right. The other of last night’s sunset.
I still have my Hero 5 Black. I don’t really know what I am going to do with the new one. If I were ever to go sailing again, I would mount one on the stern rail looking forward and move the other around, on the mast facing aft, on a mount inside the cabin on the companionway bulkhead facing forward, a head mount, hand held.
Of ever sailing again, in an email I received Saturday the writer expressed sadness that my sailing was over. I was so startled that I emailed back, “Maybe it isn’t.” Don’t get your hopes up. I don’t even know what ocean GANNET will be on this time next year. Nothing will even be considered until the Hilton Head condo is resolved and I have no idea when, if ever, that will happen.
