 This map is really too big to post here, but it shows our summer route through Northern BC. The southeast Alaska route is on, yet, another separate map, because it's just too damn much to show in one picture, and I've already shared it :P... (https://merveilles.town/@rek/112757706391822450) Yellow writing marks anchorages visited on the way back south. For now, the road ends at Von Donop.
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 @rek "I can see it clearly Waston, as clear as day, I.. "   I've been meaning to make myself a music player to replace cmus for a long time now, today's the first day I get to have something other than it to play music while I work. I tried to make something reminiscent of the ipod nano I had a while back.
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@neauoire I’d love to have a skin like that for a music app on my iPhone. Maybe I’ll figure out how to make one. It is SO nice to lay at anchor for more than 2 days! Dev & I have been walking in the forest everyday, building up our leg muscles again :neofox_googly: I now have lots of time to work on my little comic, and to advance other projects~
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Sailing to Southeast Alaska and back, we got to thoroughly test the DIY gimballed stove we built last winter aaaaand.... ... no spills, none! :cooldog: Brown your own deck by using our patented "no windlass" anchor hauling method!
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 The two rope loops made using a double fisherman's knot that we use aboard Pino to haul in the rope rode :>... they were very usefult to us this summer, very useful to help smear the mud around the deck. My younger sister had her second baby yesterday, on the *same* day as her own birthday. Isn't that neat? :neofox_aww:
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Something out of left field: Our 32-foot sailboat, Wrack, will be in the western Med' within a couple of weeks. I'm toying with the idea that artists, scientists and others might utilise her next year as a mobile, floating platform for creative/research projects or as a retreat. Any interest? I'd remain aboard as skipper to navigate and maintain the boat, as well as mentor occasionally. There would be accommodation for 2-3 guests.
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 @ccohanlon Wouldn't I love it? But I don't think it would be possible for me. I hope some people will have the occasion to enjoy it. I don't know what it is, if we look needy or something... but other sailors keep offering us food. Today someone gave us some corn. I don't know what it is, but I hope it keeps happening :moomin_sparkles:
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As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
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 Just released the list of changes to the HundredRabbits projects for July 2024, a few days late, we just arrived back into Prince Rupert :>.  @rek Greater that the Earth's circumference! So, you are circumnavigators in that sense now. The automated weather radio voice drones about the advent of favorable northerly winds that never manifest, so we've resorted to doing short hops, weather permitting, between the safety of one inlet and the next whenever the storm catches its breath, often against tide, oftener against wind. We occupy the disquieting lulls of what feels more like trench warfare than passaging drowned in tea, blankets and the smell of paperbacks.
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 @neauoire Hah, know the feeling. We've had a season of this in the Aegean sea. The pilot book kept waffling about "the prevailing southerly" but said southerly never showed up once in four weeks and we had to resort to smashing upwind at 3am for several nights in a row as the waves and headwinds were a little lighter than in the daytime. Tires you out! On the upside, we got to explore unusual anchorages that weren't accessible with the "prevailing" southerly. @neauoire I think Ontario has those sort of things https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/weatheradio/find-your-network.html I absolutely love listening to radio during the day My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge.
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 @neauoire @neauoire I have linked to this so many times. And find myself after years still thinking of it. (I really wish Laurel was on the Fediverse.) Wonder is in such sort supply at so many layers. I want a browser that lets me wander through worlds and spaces not just filter information. Languages that consider strange modes of composition. Weird, human, messy. I still believe the web is a creative medium rather than a vast array of interlinked data to be sifted and mined. Shoes and bikes. A very very short comic, a sort of vignette, for funsies. Dae never wears shoes, he spends all his time in the woods. Woops, on certain screens the drawing has some purple areas ^^;. I grayscaled the image and re-uploaded it on my website, but this one I'll leave as is. Finished playing Saturday Edition on the Playdate the other day. I didn’t expect to get into it this much, I absolutely loved it. Great dialogues and storytelling. @rek I recently have enjoyed this two as to having something to play at random times and knowing the battery is gonna last :) Solitaire game: https://play.date/games/hermit/ When things go wrong is when we learn the most aboard Pino. We had a lot of engine issues this year, so... LOTS and LOTS of learning. The boat itself doesn't have issues, Pino truly is a strong and dependable little vessel. The engine is the weakest link(or us, because it seems like we never know enough). I updated our list of notes on the subject: https://100r.co/site/engine_care.html Yesterday we had to unclog some seaweed from the engine intake while underway, a little hand pump did the trick :P... we pumped air into the thruhull and it cleared it away. |
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@rek what a journey!! so cool to see it plotted out like this.
how did you make it?
@rek neat! (Also, Texada looks larger than I remember)
@rek Marvelous!