Gregory's ServerReleased the logs documenting the first week of our recent sail from Victoria(B.C) to Sitka(Southeast Alaska).
I plan to release more as soon as I am done transcribing them.
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@planeth oh no no it’s not all chain, our boat can’t take the weight, we have 30m chain, the rest is 3-strand nylon rope rode. Can’t remember how long it took us to haul the rode back up, maybe 20 minutes? How fast depends on the weather too, if it’s rough it slows us down a bit. That time we were anchored approx 100m from shore. Ooo, yea you draw a lot (we draw 1.92m). You had difficulty finding places to anchor for your draft? @rek 1,92m is already pretty deep! We've got a 40’ and we seem to pick sailing voyage without thinking too much about draft :D In Baltic Sea, especially Denmark, we had a few cold sweat mooring in micro harbor. Scilly islands too have a few no-go zone for us. But it's soo gorgeous! This summer we were on the north coast of Spain where the mountains dive right into the sea, so we didn't had to worry too much. Though the micro harbor thing is next level ;) @rek micro harbor is a very small harbor, indeed. Like 1 pontoon for 3 boats, sometimes only one. We know something about entering/exiting at high tide ^^. We did a foolish thing this summer, entering wayy too soon before hight tide in a river. With 2 knots current. It happened what had to happen: we got stuck on a rock and scrapped our keel :/ Apart from that, yes North Spain all the way to Galicia is worth it ! Released week 2 of the logs documenting our recent sail from Victoria to Sitka(Southeast Alaska). In this part, we sailed through a bunch of rapids and battled giant ants. A preview for Week 3 of the logs, featuring a doodle I scanned from the logbook. The weather is *such* a bully... Drawings from Week 4, showing the ridiculous amount of layers we each had on when sailing in cold wet weather this year. Ninj, being bead-blooded, is superior to us in every way, he needs no additional layers. @rek https://anarchistnews.org/content/montreal-anarchist-tech-convergence-canada
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 Being back in Victoria has slowed down the transcription process for the logbook(so many things to do!), but we'll get through it! Just released Week 3 (week 4 is out too, but I need to do a few more correction passes). When sailing downwind, with both sails extended outward, Pino takes on the width of a catamaran. "Watch out! Pino's coming through~!" :goose_honk:  @rek It's like Pino fluffing xyrself up real big to scare off predators (or annoying motorboaters). >:)  We had trouble checking in with the CBP when arriving in Ketchikan by boat last June. Our dumb phone couldn't make calls to the US, and our other devices were too old to support the official check-in app. In the end, we had to walk to the harbormaster's office to use their phone. Rain in Ketchikan is no joke. I had the great idea of going out to fetch some groceries during a downpour, but did not think to wear waterproof pants, the result was that my jeans were soaked, it felt like having clingwrap around my legs.  "We thought we would get soaked today, but the storm clouds never approached us, and once halfway across Dixon Entrance the sun dominated the skies. We saw no new wildlife here, but the water and Southeast Alaskan shores were always full of gulls, a gull on every rock. Everytime we looked ashore for a glimpse of something alive, something new, there was always just gulls. Gulls abound. We still haven't seen a bear, maybe the gulls have agreed to act as stand-ins. The gull syndicate is strong on this coast." "The brightness of the day and the still waters created a perfect inverted reflection of the rocks and trees bordering the channel. This inversion gave the impression that the land continued, that we could see its underside, like it was floating in space. Looking around I felt nauseous, ungrounded, the world had stopped making sense, up was down, and our boat was flying in the void." |
@rek I enjoyed the "black-headed gull syndicate" bit.