Yesterday I wrestled GANNET’s interior into what used to be called passage mode, but is now perhaps more accurately just overnight sailing mode. Lifting and pushing heavy duffle bags and objects was rather tiring. Sometimes it briefly crosses my mind that I might be getting old, but I quickly reject such an absurd notion.
I also fit the outboard which started at the touch of a button.
So other than a final trip to a supermarket this afternoon for a loaf of seven grain bread and a few apples and oranges, I am ready to go and probably will early tomorrow—Tuesday as I write—morning. I like to leave the dock near slack water and unfortunately the tide starts to ebb at 0700, about a half hour after first light. If there is too much wind from the wrong direction I will wait another day or more.
I have no destination other than to get far enough from land to have the illusion that I have the ocean to myself.
I have been downloading GRIBs and checking multiple weather sources for several days. To the limited extent that long range forecasts can be believed, nothing severe is expected for the next ten days.
The Yellowbrick will be activated, sending up positions every six hours. If you want to follow, the tracking page is the same as in the past.
Above is today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. It is a time lapse photo taken in Bavaria, Germany, and all but one of those lines were made by satellites that passed over in a ten minute period. One is a difficult to locate comet, visible just above the image center.
I know we have put a lot of satellites up there, but I am impressed by how many passed over in such a short time. I expect that what happened over Bavaria is happening over all of us all the time.
As promised three haiku.
Wishing you well from the marsh.
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