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From Forward Harbor to Port Neville in Johnstone Strait (B.C., Canada), we must have tacked 25 times in total to get here. The wind was good, 17-23 knots, but in your face. The whole of Johnstone Strait is wind in your face. I am super beat. We encountered two pods of orcas though! They surfaced close both times, we got a really good look at them. The first pod had a baby :>.... :orca:
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Hi Fedi, Just got laid off a month after buying our first house because the company is "right-sizing" its staff. We have moved to a small town in NC hoping for better life, thinking our jobs will last us years. Now we're panicking, as jobs here are scarce. If anyone knows of any remote US opportunities for a generalist (can do basic coding, web design, BFA in graphic design, but spent last couple years with data analysis/entry for a remote office) do let me know. Boosts appreciated โค๏ธ
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Day 12: Frances Bay, Desolation Sound -> Shoal Bay, Johnstone Strait 
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@neauoire woahhh, such an amazing view that comes across my timeline. Thanks for sharing, I hope you enjoy it as much as I dream of it :) 
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So, @abnercoimbre kindly asked me to come talk with Handmade Seattle again this year. In response to the recent mass layoffs and crumbling tech landscape, Abner suggested that I come present some thoughts I might have on different ways to adapt and live. See you there ๐ป Nov 20-22nd, 2024
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@neauoire @abnercoimbre should be a great talk - y'all continue to amaze me with the resourcefulness and adaptiveness I've marked the calendar. I'll hope to be there barring anything crazy like yet another layoff or something ridiculous. 
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When we changed our mainsail in 2019, we kept the old battens. We've used them for a variety of projects over the years.
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We motored out of Ballet Bay in a calm, but I could see a dark blue band on the water way ahead, a look through the binoculars revealed a few whitecaps. Um, there was plenty of wind out there! We expected little to no wind, but got 15-20 knots on the nose, like yesterday (forecast called for 5-15 knots). This wind permitted an afternoon of close-hauled sailing to our next anchorage :>! We're now anchored in Sturt Bay on Texada Island, with plans to leave tomorrow for Desolation Sound.
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The perfect encapsulation of where Silicon Valley has been taking us for years. Let this radicalize you into picking up a paintbrush or a guitar. As much as I work digitally, there's SO much satisfaction in the physical act of creation โ in all its roughness and mess. 
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Apple and every other tech capitalist are desperate to lock you into endless subscriptions, dongles, and yearly upgrade cycles, squeezing you of every last drop. Resist. Buy used, if you must. But look for escape routes, because this shit is untenable. Catch me by the cave walls, charcoal in hand.
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Day 7: Pender Harbor, Sunshine Coast -> Ballet Bay, Jarvis Inlet 
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A 12 nmi long trip from Pender Harbour to Ballet Bay on Nelson island(in a straight line) turned into a 25 nmi long sail. When the wind comes out of where you want to go (15-20 knots out of the NW on the nose), sailing long stretches from one side of the channel to the other is the only way to go forward. It works well, but it adds a lot of miles to a journey... We are properly tired now.
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Sailing into the wind is actually low-effort, because the boat steers itself (until we have to tack, that is), but having wind in your face the whole time is tiring. Our wind meter doesn't work so we don't know how strong the wind was, but thinking it was mostly at 20 knots the whole way. We had some good waves on the transit, a rare thing for the waters between the mainland and Texada (in the summer it's often super calm and flat here). At least it was very sunny today :>...
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"Who are the jerks running their engine at the dock for this long? I'll go tell them off!" :neofox_angry: *peeks outside* Turns out its a 58 ft RCMP catamaran. :neofox_sign_aaa:
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@rek "I AM GOING TO GIVE THEM A PIECE OF MY MIND TO THE.. THE.. police battlecruiser"
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When we cross the Strait of Georgia, we usually exit out of Gabriola Pass and overnight in Silva Bay to take the next day's favorable wind, but yesterday we left from Porlier and shot across to Smuggler's Cove on the Sunshine Coast, a 37 nm long sail.
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I'm keeping a very detailed log of our travels, complete with silly drawings.
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Just released the list of changes and updates to the Hundred Rabbits projects for April 2024. A day late because we are on the move, yesterday was a busy day on the water. Pino is heading northward! 
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The boat is now full of food! Instead of doing one big supply run(friends often offer car rides), Dev & I do frequent grocery runs by bike. We've been doing this for a few weeks now. We can carry a lot at once. A few days ago I had 12 kg of grains on my back. Doing it this way takes more time, sure, but it permits us to go for a bike ride often, which is nice :> ๐ฒ ! 
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@rek yes there is that myth that one would need at least a cargo bike to replace a car but you can already carry a lot with a simple rear rack rated for 25kg and decent panniers. Add to that an hiking backpack, possibly a front rack or basket and you can carry even more. And it scales automatically with the people going with you, unlike when using a motorized vehicle. 
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Last minute pickling in progress! Now all ours jars are full, we are ready for summer! Processed 2.5 kg of cabbage plus about 1 kg of turnips and beets, filling 6 jars (2x1L plus 4x500ml). 
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 @JulianOliver Found it. A project of photographer Eric Pickersgill: https://qz.com/523746/a-photographer-edits-out-our-smartphones-to-show-our-strange-and-lonely-new-world and https://www.removed.social/series 
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My website, kokorobot.ca, has been around for 13 years ๐
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"Their slow voyage southwards along the Atlantic coast of Europe in search of somewhere to settle has become a kind of performance art, expressed in the poetic, diaristic prose and photos that turn up daily on social media." โ Liz Cullinane |
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@rek watch out ๐ https://mstdn.social/@12thRITS/112440752938823094