Things tagged Sailing

On The Other Ocean 07/23/07
Consider for a moment if your house were tilted 30 degrees to the left. Imagine how this would complicate seemingly ...
07/14/07
Blue Whales are unusual this far south, but sure enough. It's a very very large animal. The only time I've ...
07/14/07
We followed him at about 30 meters for maybe ten minutes.
07/14/07
Spouting blue whale
07/13/07
The view from the back of the boat where we moor -- just north of the isthmus
07/13/07
Ideally this would be stitched together with the bast some, but it just didn't work.
07/13/07
The bow at twilight
07/12/07
The mast at twilight
07/12/07
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07/11/07
I woke up the first morning and stuck my head out of the companionway and saw this sky.
07/11/07
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07/11/07
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07/10/07
Shipping vessels are big, fast and scary.
07/10/07
It looked quite foreboding when we left the harbor, but hey, at least there's wind.
07/10/07
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07/10/07
The cockpit
07/10/07
My third cousins Dick and Bill checking out the Holoholo, as I believe the boat was called.

Filler:

I wasn't quite sure what to do with this space... I thought maybe I would plant a little tree or something, but there's already a little tree just above here. Maybe a watering hole, some sort of saloon. I dunno. Still working on it.

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Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. This one uses JQuery and has by far the best browser ...
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