Sailors can be a superstitious lot. I don’t generally ascribe to much of that, but I completely understand the desire to try to impose order on chaos, even if it means that you start blaming things on black cats or bananas. I thought I’d catalog what I failed to heed today, and maybe we can see if any of these catch on as new omens.
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…out like a lamb. Assuming that lamb breathes fire and shoots laser beams out of his dead, dead eyes.
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So, I got a new camera.
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From this altitude, there’s no way that anyone could think these mountains were eternal.
Continue Reading "Before the Snow"A rare post from Jen…
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If our sailing activities were a sportsball team, the talk radio pundits probably would have classified 2013 as a “rebuilding year,” since that seems to be the predominant cliché to describe any consistently down season. But it was not without its highlights. Here is our annual review:
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We were that close. Standing next to Fortuitous, having just found that the restrooms at our quite-closed marina had already been winterized, the bitter wind whipped through the yard at over 20kts. I was picturing the best way to orient the boat to tuck in a reef, but Jen was probably correct that the relentless chill on the water would have quickly grown intolerable. For the most part, I let her third veto stand. The weekend was far from a total loss though (nautically speaking), because I’d already been messing about on boats for the better part of the morning.
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This is not the last log entry of the season. The last log entry of the season will follow the last sail of the season, which hasn’t happened yet. Never mind that the marina is closed. Never mind that every day is colder than the last, or that the wind is like having bricks thrown at you, or that everything around me seems to be operating as if the gears were missing teeth. Gravity as my witness, I will make it down that boat ramp at least one more time.
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We are rapidly running out of sailing season, and I’m starting to get a little twitchy.
Continue Reading "Lack of Sailing Blues"
Is this the fulfillment of the Koko Goldstein prophesy? Daft Punk has leaked copies of their new album, Random Access Memories, and devotees of Yacht Rock are seeing the smooth, smooth signs.
Continue Reading "Album Review or Yacht Rock Prophecy"