Something remarkable is happening today. The sun is shining. There is not a cloud in the sky. The temperature is 61F/16C. And I biked to GANNET and finished waxing her hull. With a 14 knot west wind blowing GANNET toward the dock, the stern line to the pile float saved me from constantly having to push her away. Because Audrey has yet to gallop by on her horse—she is making lame excuses that the horse is needed to pull pods containing the Armada to their new home in Virginia—when leaving I looked back a boat length away. I think GANNET passes the test, but then it may help that I am more than half blind.
Of vision, Larry noticed a similarity in GANNET’s face and mine in the photo posted yesterday of GANNET from astern. I recall someone commenting on this years ago when I ran a photo of her being towed to San Diego. GANNET and I are both old and one-eyed, but she is prettier.
Mark noticed in the background in another of yesterday’s photos a boat flying a Confederate flag. I don’t know the owner of that boat, but having become aware of it, I glanced over today and found that the boat now flies not a Confederate flag, but two United States flags. And a Trump banner.
An email from Ken, an American living in Perth, Australia, about sextant navigation caused me to wonder if one of the books I used to learn celestial more than fifty years ago, Mary Blewitt’s CELESTIAL NAVIGATION FOR YACHTSMEN is still in print. Amazingly it is. Now in its 13th edition. There even is a Kindle edition. I am going to buy it to see what if anything has been changed.
Below is a screen shot of the Amazon listing page. Note the edition in the middle. A bargain. “Only 1 left in stock—order soon.”
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