 Yesterday, we tested our anchor retrieval system for when we have a lot of rope rode out(friction knot around rope with a line led back to a cockpit winch to hoist it), in very difficult conditions.   While setting the anchor, I put my sunglasses behind me on the deck, I had them on my head and was afraid they'd slip and fall in the water.  @rek feels like damned if you do, damned if you don't with those kind of "safe places" sometimes haha I'm actually glad the wind is up and that the weather is shit out there today, at least I can spend some time on personal projects. Also, we feel a bit less hurried to go north fast because we've finally arrived in Southeast Alaska. Most of the month of May was spent sailing, in evenings I didn't have energy for anything other than writing the day's happenings in my logbook. Today, I spent some time gathering notes for a future Wiktopher book, bits of story, characters, etc. Unfortunately, all of the incessant heavy rain and winds we've been having since arriving in Ketchikan, has revealed 2 leaks aboard. One from the mast (my pants were hanging there to dry but instead imbided all of the water leaking out of there), the other from the deck iron for the woodstove. Last winter, we had frequent below freezing temperatures, which caused the wood of the deck iron ring to expand, and crack, now water creeps in. Another project for our return to Victoria in the fall. Released the list of changes to the Hundred Rabbits projects for May 2024. Pino is now in Ketchikan (SE Alaska).   Friends of ours on the sailboat Moonshine took this photo of us as we sailed out of Port McNeill, in Queen Charlotte Strait. We were on our way to Millbrook Cove, just around Cape Caution, on May 20th. It is very rare to have photos of Pino from afar, with full sails :)...
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Hey Merveilles :tealheart: (I will @ a couple people in private subpost below but feel free to reach out if you are from community and would like to meet ๐)  @mayaks I'm not in berlin, but there's a permacomputing meetup happening in a few days, I saw it in the mailing list, did you see? Our sailing trajectory thus far. I update our route whenever we find internet (like today, yay!).  
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 Leg 3 of our trip in progress :). We are currently in Prince Rupert(54ยฐ18โฒ46โณN, 130ยฐ19โฒ31โณW), to do laundry, re-stock on a few things, before we head off into SE Alaska.  @rek Thank you for sharing your trip and keeping it up to date. What do you use to plot these charts? Is it also built with uxn? Beautiful Fury Cove (51ยฐ29.291'N, 127ยฐ45.508'W, where we were a few days ago). We're now in Lizzie Cove (52ยฐ 3.088'N, 128ยฐ5.083'W)   We found a tiny bit of internet(unstable) while in a really beautiful place, Codville Lagoon (52 ยฐ3.706'N 127ยฐ 50.262'W). We traveled 40 NM by sail from Fury Cove, in the rain, but at least with wind from the stern. It was our most relaxing sail yet! A map I drew to document our northbound transit through the Yuculta and Dent Rapids(B.C, Canada), where it's necessary to ride some back currents to make forward progress if the goal is to pass the two rapids in one go.  @rek thatโs awesome. Someone should publish a Book of Back Eddies. I know them in Active Pass pretty well but not elsewhere. We had a rough, short transit to Port McNeil(B.C, Canada) yesterday. Wind was blowing 20-25 knots, coming out of where? Out of where we need to go always, of course! We had to dodge islands, boat traffic, ferries, and contend with ever-increasing waves and wind. The current was with us, but wind opposing current makes for even larger waves. By the end the sea was covered with whitecaps. With 2 reefs in, Pino handled it fine. Our faces were encrusted with salt by the time we arrived. No one else was sailing that day, we were the only fools out there. Unfortunately, the only spot available in Port McNeil was only partially shielded from the wind waves, so we got our asses kicked all night at the dock too. Now we are ready to relax. 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: 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 @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 :) 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.  When we changed our mainsail in 2019, we kept the old battens. We've used them for a variety of projects over the years. 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. 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.  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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Taking a day off today, to recuperate.
To hoist our anchor rode back on deck, I had to do a lot of hand over hand. I do hand over hand when there's not too much tension in the rode... but I think I overdid it. Just the stress of the event made me push too hard. My right forearm was a bit swollen afterwards (my fingers are very stiff this morning).