self-portrait in the present sea journal

I can no longer make changes to the main site, www.inthepresentsea.com, which is now frozen in time, as I will be myself soon enough. Anything more will be added here. The contact at the main site has become unreliable, so I have created a new email address and can be reached at webbchiles@yahoo.com. The Yellowbrick tracking page for GANNET when I am at sea is: https://my.yb.tl/gannet

Monday, August 3, 2026

Hilton Head Island: sprited and flying

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  Yesterday I carried the painted bowsprit back down to GANNET after spraying three coats of Petit Easypoxy onto it.  I was fortunate with t...
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Hilton Head Island: almost ship wrecked

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Captain Cook and I were both almost shipwrecked when our engineless ships were becalmed and swept toward reefs by currents.  Captain Cook ha...
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Thursday, July 30, 2026

Hilton Head Island: Captain Cook’s Journals

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  I am rereading Captain Cook’s Journals for the first time in more than forty years.  That can happen when you get old. I am reading an abr...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Hilton Head Island: a new sail cover; Warwick Tompkins, Jr.

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  Above is my new mainsail cover.  Doug, whose boat is next to GANNET on the dock, says he prefers the old one.  So do I, but this one does ...
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Thursday, July 23, 2026

Hilton Head Island: ”feels like’ and ‘heat index; The Final Set; and two poems

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I continue not to be doing much of interest these days.   The can of spray paint for the bow sprit is now not due until Monday and the heat ...
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Monday, July 20, 2026

Hilton Head Island: a man of leisure

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I woke this morning at 5:15, glanced at the time, rolled over and went back to sleep, waking again at 6:30 when I got up, made coffee, poure...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Hilton Head Island: painted and oiled

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Hilton Head Island: words not quite spoken; Spain: poems

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 8:30 PM.  I am on our screened porch, looking out at a grey and green-black world.  Only 81F and comfortable with the fan on over head. I w...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Hilton Head Island: The Birds and The Daughters of Mars

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  Almost 7:30 PM.  As perhaps you can see rain is falling. We are in a South Florida summer weather pattern with sunny mornings and thunders...
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Saturday, July 11, 2026

Hilton Head Island: what?!

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  A little while ago after watching England squeak past Norway, I received the above as a Google Alert.  I looked at the number and thought:...
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