We walked through the cemetery to the lake this morning and saw a coyote for the first time in several weeks. This one was at some distance from the den we located earlier. We read that coyotes often change dens. Whether the one above is the growing pup or one of the parents we do not know. He was breakfasting on a squirrel or a rat. He did not want to share and keep his eye on us.
Above you have Audrey, Admiral of the Small Boat Armada maintained by Kent, who is also Fleet Photographer. She is sailing ZIP, a wooden Sunfish. Both Kent and Audrey like the wooden Sunfish because it creaks and sounds like a square rigger.
Here is a link to a short video of ZIP underway.
Some people have all the fun.
Speaking of which I am suffering from an increasingly severe case of captiterraphobia, which as some of you may remember is my self-named disease of fear of being trapped by land. I have now been in the upper flatlands for more than three months. Too long. Fortunately a cure is at hand. We fly to Hilton Head on Sunday.
We watched a film, MAGNETIC, last evening on Netflix. This is a 2018 documentary about “men and women attracted by the magnetic force of unleashed elements.” Hmm. Despite this —and I remember only one token woman—there is footage of young people performing astonishing feats: riding huge waves, skiing down perpendicular mountains, mountain biking, kiting, parasailing. The movie is entertaining. One aspect that perhaps I am one of the few to have noticed is that all the endeavors were team efforts. I found myself wondering what the lives of these athletes will be like, and if they survive to 78, if they will still be trying to figure out what they ought to do next.
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A wooden Sunfish - I never knew. What a delightful sailboat!
Yes, Alcort Sunfish were all wooden from 1953 until 1960. The wooden boat were factory built and available as kits during the 1960s, alongside the new fangled fiberglass Sunfish. Wooden Sunfish production faded away about the time AMF bought ALCORT. We are planning to build a 2020 replica, with the permission of the current trademark holder Laser Performance.
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