Above you have “Sunrise with Sea Monsters”, by one of my favorite artists, J.M.W. Turner, for no other reason than I like it. It is my current iPad Pro and Mini desktop. I have seen countless sunrises. Zero sea monsters.
We are told that most of the damage from major tropical storms comes from water which is roughly 800 times denser than air. However as this startling video of a typhoon in I believe China shows great wind can alone wreck havoc. I thank Larry who sent it to me.
James Lovelock died last week on his 103rd birthday. Reportedly he was in good health until a fall a few months before his death. He was an original, who among other accomplishments created the concept of GAIA. I thank James for a link to his obituary.
Steve Earley is a most modest man, but he mentioned in a recent Log of SPARTINA entry that adding his last fall cruise on the Chesapeake and his winter cruise from South Carolina to Florida comes to almost 1000 statute miles. I doubt few other open boats have been sailed so far so well in this past year. Well, done, Steve.
http://logofspartina.blogspot.com/2022/07/thinking-about-fall.html
From Jason, a former South Carolinian who is now a resident of New Zealand came an email suggesting that I wrap GANNET rather than paint her. I replied that I did not under ‘wrap’ as he used the word. He sent me this link:
https://www.nzmps.co.nz/boat-wraps-vinyl-wraps/
I googled and found others, including places that do this here in Illinois and in South Carolina and now I know. I had never heard of this procedure before. The price for a do-it-yourself kit from a company in Australia is less than $900 US.
I am not going to wrap. I have pretty much decided to paint GANNET myself at her slip or possibly at anchor after doing the prep work in the slip where I can conveniently work whenever spirit and weather permit. This would be my forth topside painting. I painted THE HAWKE OF TUONELA on the hard in Opua as well as in the water at Constitution Marina in Boston. And GANNET on the hard here in Illinois. My only excuse is laziness and I can overcome that. Probably.
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