July 2020 – Sailing Sea Sea

Colors

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore I my youth summer evening were often spent catching crabs on the South River at the point between Church and Crab creek. Brother Bob and I would meet our friend MikeContinue reading “Colors”

Sail Power and Famous Birthdays

The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone. Mark Z. Jacobson You’d think there would be a simple formula to calculate the power that a set of sails can generate in a a given amount of wind . But then you would be wrong. I did find the following after doing aContinue reading “Sail Power and Famous Birthdays”

Brother Bob

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward So my brother Bob is a realist. It fits, he’s an engineer and has been adjusting sails of one sort of another his whole life. Our parents somehow predicted his lifelong passion before he wasContinue reading “Brother Bob”

Cruz Bay

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. Thomas More Thomas was not really speaking of Cruz Bay, nevertheless , it’s probably not a great idea for a visitor to cruise by yachtContinue reading “Cruz Bay”