 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 β 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. 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. 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 :>... "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:  @rek "I AM GOING TO GIVE THEM A PIECE OF MY MIND TO THE.. THE.. police battlecruiser" 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. I'm keeping a very detailed log of our travels, complete with silly drawings. 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! 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 :> π² ! @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. 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). @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 Since its release in 2021, we have sold 1404 copies of Busy Doing Nothing (digital + paperback). This is amazing, especially for something that was self-published and that wasn't distributed through a big online store :moomin_sparkles:
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Our old chainplates are still useful! A machinist cut them down and made two new bolt holes for us :>! Now they're helping to reenforce the wall connection (when we bought Pino in 2016 there was a lot of dry rot around two of the upper bolt holes, one on each side). Grinding some wheat berries~! The plan is to use the flour to make pancakes tomorrow morning, and then pizza the day after. I reviewed and updated all of the linked documents in the 2019 Sailing in Japan guide on 100r.co There was a lot of dead or broken links, such is the nature of the internet.  The REIWA-125 is a box cart made from tiger-spotted bamboo. (A box cart is a handmade car that does not have an engine and runs solely on gravity.) This was made by Taketora, a company in Japan that makes everything out of bamboo. This box car was made to commemorate Taketora's 125th year anniversary(in 2019), and to participate in a race in Spain. They like to participate in events to teach the world about the usefulness of bamboo. Even more impressive, is that they produced all-bamboo armor for the driver(and owner/artisan of Taketora), Yoshihiro Yamagishi, for the event. |
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