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My mom mainly speaks French. She can get by in English, but she has a tendency to mix up and mispronounce words.   I also just remembered my next door neighbor, and friend (from when I was a kid), pronouncing popcorn as 'pah-koing'. Had a very pleasant 12nm-long downwind sail up Satellite Channel to Genoa Bay (BC, Canada). Now the hook is set, and Devine is asleep :P... Had to fight a weak current in the beginning because marina check-out times don't change with the tides(if only they did)... but was nothing we couldn't handle. ⛵ 🌊 A boatyard is a very unhealthy place.  @rek that last item seems like it deserves a higher placement on the list, because engine out service on anything is a huge deal. For sailors, the VHF is a lifeline. Bruce Balan of ChartLocker was recently anchored in Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas listening out on VHF Channel 16 and sent this poignant message to the cruising community: “I counted 35 boats in the bay. Scanning all the normal calling channels I heard maybe 2 boats a day making VHF calls. When I started asking around, it seems many boats don’t even turn their VHF on any more...
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 @rek damn that's sad & scary. kind of confunding when considering the convenience of DSC-enabled VHFs already present  Just released the summary of changes and updates to the Hundred Rabbits projects for May 🐇 :moomin_flower2: After watching Suzume, a film I particularly loved, Devine and I started watching Makoto Shinkai's other films, like Your Name, and Weathering With You. And holy crap... we should have not watched these in a row because it shows just how similar, and formulaic they all are. All 3 films are about saving someone from an impossible situation(from some natural disaster wrapped up with some fantasy elements), with lots and lots of crocodile tears, and with waaay too much Radwimps playing throughout.
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 @rek Agreed, I avoid his works for being predictable tearjerkers, however masterfully executed.  Solar bread round #2! Love to smell it baking outside ^_____^. The boat spinning at anchor is not proving to be too much of a problem~ Like before, i divided the dough in two baguettes. Although after putting in the second one to bake, I realized they'd cook better if I made four (cooking two small onces at once). An adjustment for next time, I guess :>. 🌞 🍞  We carry a pressure sprayer aboard, typically used to spray lawns/gardens. We use it to wash dishes, or to hose down Pino's deck. While in Victoria I was cleaning it, and a dock neighbor asked what was in the bottle. "Water," I said. He was afraid for us, that it was a 'used' sprayer. We've only ever used water in it, bought it new years ago. Tried solar-roasting some sunflower seeds, aaaand I sort of lost track of time and over-cooked them a little.... Kay fine, a lot. I burnt them 😬. For fun, we measured the heat in the stove and no wonder! Readout was 217°C(422.6°F).  @rek Grind them and make coffee, who knows, it might be the next big thing! "To think like a mountain means to have a complete appreciation for the profound interconnectedness of the elements in the ecosystems. It is an ecological exercise using the intricate web of the natural environment rather than thinking as an isolated individual." Ive posted this before(i rly like it), but im sharing it again cause I just saw it on my bird journal while updating it :>. Waking up to the sound of eagles screeching, and to the sight of pigeon guillemots paddling in the water next to the boat ^____^...  A very good day on the water today. No drama what-so-ever. Left Victoria at 10h30, arrived in Tsehum Harbour in Sidney at exactly 16h00. Usually we always forget to close, stow, or take out something, but we left the dock and had zero fuck-ups. That is rare. Fuck I'm tired. Sailing is very draining. Found enough energy though to cycle into downtown Sidney for some vegan faux-fish(tofu+nori) and chips. Been using a Pentel Fudepen(筆ペン, Japanese brush pen) lately to ink comics, and love the result! Easy to do thick and thin. I love dip pens, but there's something about using a brush that is just so pleasant ^_^. Evidently, I make a lot of mistakes that I have to correct digitally. Hopefully I'll make fewer as I get used to it.   Someone in the marina gave away a weighted blanket. Those things are so freakin' heavy...! Even when dry, I tried folding it to put it away and it was so hard XD...  Threw the heavy bundle in the quarter berth, near the back of the boat. We're a bit heavy in the bow atm so it'll maybe help to correct that XD!  @rek Weighted blankets are extremely good. Basically cancels before-sleep anxiety for me. I don't struggle with that anymore but it's also just a fall-asleep accelerator. Just be mindful about how you fold your shoulders.
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 @rek btw the family on the ketch moored behind me asked me about my solar stove last night while I was cleaning up, they're HELLA enthused about it and I was sad to have to tell them that I haven't gotten to try mine yet - BUT I told them to visit 100r.co and also to hit you two up next time they see you on this dock. so heads up that you might get pinged for an IRL chat about these adventures :) the result: https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/110346250694057921 Success! Now the baguette is cooling down, while I threw the other half of the recipe to cook outside. Once the first baguette is cool we'll give it a taste and let you all know how it was, texture wise. Finished stitching the cover for the mini bimini we put together last week. This re-uses old bits of sunbrella pieces from our former (torn)canvas dodger, and the piece that used to snap over the windows. It's not a perfect perfect fit(worked with what I had), but at least it'll keep us a bit more cool when steering this summer, and it means we can extend the life of the bit of sunbrella we already had on hand. This is the thread that shows the frame we put together: A note: this is just to shield us from the sun, and to act as a platform for a very lightweight solar panel. We nicknamed it 'the roll cage'(sometimes we think ourselves funny) but it is far from indestructible :>. A sturdier design would be through-bolted(pipes and deck), and its something we plan to do once we re-install a hard panel overtop, or if the boat wanders into rougher waters. In the film 180° South, Yvon Chouinard says something about how the goal of planning a journey(and spending a lot of time in it afterward) is to effect a sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process, say by taking shortcuts, or by paying your way through(like some moneyed ppl do climbing Everest), you're an asshole when you start out, and you're an asshole when you get back. The process matters more than the end goal, and skipping that seems insane to me. Makes me think of people sailing south to Mexico, then having their boat shipped back up the coast later by container ship. Or of rich yacht owners who have crew sail their boat to exotic locations and flying in to spend time aboard, while doing no maintenance, no planning, no nothing.
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@rek Uxn, Xun and Nxu.
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