I did my standard workout 115 times in 2024. Once each month I did what I call the 100 workout in which I go to 100 in the first set of push-ups and crunches and 50 in the second and third sets. In all as accurately as I can assess I did 9,855 push-ups during the year. I did considerably more crunches because one part of my weight workout consists of 100 crunches with twenty pounds of weigh on my chest. I did that 49 times during the year.
Books read July-December
Of the books Zola’s NANA and GERMINAL are among his best. THE SWORD OF HONOR by Evelyn Waugh is an excellent WW2 trilogy. All three of the novels by John Williams are exceptionally good. I, of course, enjoyed Tim Robinson’s THE STONES OF ARAN: LABYRINTH. THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSIE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD and THE PARIS HOURS were unexpected treats.
The top image is a screen shot taken from iSailor showing the rhumb line from Hilton Head Island to a point just north of Culebra. If you cannot read the numbers they show a course of 135ยบ T and a distance of 1175 nautical miles. From that waypoint I would have about 10 more miles to reach Ensenada Honda, the island’s main harbor, but there are good anchorages on the north side of the island were night falling.
I will soon be ready to sail, but as those of you living in the continental United States know we are about to receive a gift from Canada of Arctic air which will drop our temperatures to near or even below freezing. I have sailed in such conditions before and may again, but prefer not to and will wait until our weather returns to something resembling normal.
I wish you all a fine 2025.
