I am hobbling around like an old man. Oh, that’s right, I am an old man. This particular hobbling is due to having been resliced and stitched yesterday by a beautiful woman. I am ever diminished. For your enlightenment, if you haven’t already read it I refer you to:
https://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/slice_of_life.html
Title by Steve Earley.
I also refer you to an article just added to the main site. ‘My Seventh Circumnavigation’. It ran in CRUISING WORLD a few months ago and I forgot to add it afterwards.
https://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/My_Seventh_Circumnavigtion.html
I counted. There are now 49 articles on the main site. A veritable treasure trove of great prose.
I am reading the superbly titled, HOW CHANCE AND STUPIDITY HAVE CHANGED HISTORY by Erik Durschmied, which is an examination of seventeen battles from Troy to our Gulf War which could have been won, but were lost due to chance and/or stupidity. I have not yet read the chapter on the Gulf War. I thought we won that one. The chance varied from rain to found cigars. The stupidity is legion. If you have been reading this journal for a while you are aware that I do not think we are homo sapiens—wise or knowing man—but home insipiens—foolish or stupid man. Stupidity is endemic among kings, emperors and generals. You may recall my: A military genius is a man of average intelligence whose opponent is retarded. I am sure that ‘retarded’ is not politically correct, but it gets the point across.
In planning for Iceland I recently visited Noonsite which used to be a good source of information about entry requirement for yachts in many countries. I find that they now are hiding the most useful information unless one becomes a member.
I also found that Canada still has complicated procedures in place for entry of foreign yachts with fully vaccinated crew. Unvaccinated crew cannot get in. I know how to sail to Iceland. I still haven’t figured out how to get back.
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