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R E K

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.

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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.

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At least, the new chainplates we installed aren't leaking :>.

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Released the list of changes to the Hundred Rabbits projects for May 2024.

Pino is now in Ketchikan (SE Alaska).

100r.co/site/home.html#may2024

A drawing of a bird with an umbrella, the rainbird, a Ketchikan icon.
C.B.Leslie

@rek Also, more importantly, you've given the world a bird drawing.

R E K

A few restful days on a dock, waiting for weather to head towards Ketchikan.

Pino sitting at a dock in prince rupert, with misty mountains in the background and many small motor boats on the docks. A pub on stilts sits ashore.
R E K

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 :)...

a sailboat is sailing on smooth waters in British Columbia, with mountains in the distance. The sailboat has a black circle on its mainsail.
R E K

Hey Merveilles :tealheart:
I have heard that we have a couple of folks now in Berlin, would you be interested in having a small merv meet up here? ^^

(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 ๐Ÿ™)

Devine Lu Linvega

@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?

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Our sailing trajectory thus far.

I update our route whenever we find internet (like today, yay!).

100r.co/site/western_canada.ht

A map showing our sailing progress towards Southeast Alaska, covering the north of Vancouver Island and the Northern British Columbia Coast, with points on the map denoting stops, and the red line showing where we passed.
A map showing our sailing progress towards Southeast Alaska, starting from Victoria, covering the Salish Sea up to Desolation Sound, with points on the map denoting stops, and the red line showing where we passed.
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max22-

@rek what is your final destination in Alaska ?

R E K

Leg 3 of our trip in progress :).

We are currently in Prince Rupert(54ยฐ18โ€ฒ46โ€ณN, 130ยฐ19โ€ฒ31โ€ณW), to do laundry, re-stock on a few things, before we head off into SE Alaska.

the travel route of a sailboat through the british columbia north coast, with white dots denoting stops and a red line showing the path.
gabrielbezerra

@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?

R E K

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)

a scenic anchorage that is shielded from weather, with a white sand beach bordering one side, also with breaks in the trees offering a view of Fitz Hugh Sound.
a scenic anchorage that is shielded from weather, with a white sand beach bordering one side, also with breaks in the trees offering a view of Fitz Hugh Sound. In the foreground is the deck of a sailboat at anchor.
poetaster

@rek jeez, i was hoping to intercept you guys, what's your flight plan. Where will you be the beginning of august!?

R E K

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!

R E K

Some humpback whales were jumping in the little bay right near the narrow entrance channel. Devine saw one jump right out of the water!

rezmason

@rek A degree of longitude at your latitude is 6% shorter than where you began. Watch your step when you walk east or west!

R E K

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.

100r.co/site/yuculta_and_dent_

A hand drawn map(digital) showing 3 rapids, and how to negotiate the back eddies for a safe passage, when riding the last of a flood current.
Avi Bryant

@rek thatโ€™s awesome. Someone should publish a Book of Back Eddies. I know them in Active Pass pretty well but not elsewhere.

R E K

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.

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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.
The harbourmaster felt sorry for us, and found another spot for us. We couldn't move to it until today though, the wind and water was keeping us pinned to the dock.

Now we are ready to relax.

R E K

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 โค๏ธ

R E K

Day 12: Frances Bay, Desolation Sound -> Shoal Bay, Johnstone Strait

Jaxom Kaplan

@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 :)

Devine Lu Linvega

Day 13: Shoal Bay, Johnstone Strait -> Forward Harbor, Johnstone Strait

R E K

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 ๐ŸŒป Nov 20-22nd, 2024

wiki.xxiivv.com/site/talk.html

R E K

When we changed our mainsail in 2019, we kept the old battens. We've used them for a variety of projects over the years.
More recently, we used some as a way to keep the books from falling out when sailing.

A makeshift library in a sailboat made out of plastic crates, filled with books and boxes,with old mainsail battens used to keep books from falling out.
David JONES

@rek a padlock on one end would also protect the books from any stowaway book thieves.

R E K

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.

R E K

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.

youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc

Helvetica Blanc

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.

R E K

Day 7: Pender Harbor, Sunshine Coast -> Ballet Bay, Jarvis Inlet

Devine Lu Linvega

Day 8: Ballet Bay, Jarvis Inlet -> Sturt Bay, Texada

R E K

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.

R E K

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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