Evanston: didn’t; a Freudian typo; sell-out
Evanston: didn’t; a Freudian typo; sell-out
I didn’t get to GANNET this weekend. Morning thunderstorms ended too late.
Rainfall at O'Hare has measured almost nine inches/22 cm in the past three days, and set a Chicago record of more than 5.5”/14 cm in two hours, which is monsoonal.
Above is stuff awaiting transport to the little sloop.
From the left: in the blue box, which is an insulated lunch box, are two Dartington crystal double old-fashioned glasses encased in bubble wrap. I have kept wine glasses in such containers aboard THE HAWKE OF TUONELA for years.
The red bag holds twenty freeze dry meals bought from Campmor, where you get a discount for twenty or more. I’m testing several new entrees.
The sheet of paper is a print-out of emailed instructions from a Moore 24 owner on how to raise the mast.
The four white containers are also from Campmor and are intended for my breakfast staples: oatmeal, non-fat powered milk, trail mix, and coffee. I already have these aboard in round containers from Bed, Bath and Beyond that I’ve used before, but have found that they don’t fit in GANNET’s only bins.
The one-hand hacksaw is intended to cut short some through hull bolts in places where a regular hacksaw can’t reach.
The yellow object is a 35‘ metal tape measure to replace the one that broke when I was trying to measure the headstay. It did so at the top, leaving one of my jib halyards stuck up the mast until either the rigger brings it down while installing the furling gear or I lower the mast.
The mirror is for shaving.
The plastic bag came as packing for a blanket for our bed and I’m not sure what I’m going to use it for.
The black cylinder labelled “Jetboil” is a stove suggested by Steve Earley, for which I thank him. The full name is the Jetboil Flash Personal Cooking System. I have not yet used it, but it is very cleverly designed, with everything fitting inside the cylinder, including a coffee press.
Although I had already bought the MSR Pocket Rocket, I think the Jetboil is more stable and, being insulated, less likely to result in burns.
While the Jetboil does include an adapter for a pan, it is really a boil water only cooking system, which is all I do. Coffee and to shave in the morning. Freeze dry meal and sometimes a cup of tea at night.
The cable beside the Jetboil is to recharge the Kindle.
The Garmin handheld GPS that came with GANNET is being taken back. I brought it home to study some of its functions with the owner’s manual, which I only have downloaded in this computer.
Both Kindle cable and GPS are resting on an old grey tee-shirt, now among my boat work clothes, that I brought home to wash.
I don’t know where I’ll install the paper towel rack. I didn’t have one on CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE, but have on every other boat I’ve owned.
As much of this as I can carry a half mile will go to GANNET tomorrow by train.
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I believe that I have noted here before that I find proof-reading my own writing difficult because my eye often sees what my mind intends rather than what is actually on the page or screen.
Perhaps many of you noticed and smiled at the typo in my last post when I wrote about the 10 cent piece an ancestor of mine nailed to the sole of his ‘boat’ when he walked to California. Finally one of you emailed me about it, for which I am sincerely appreciative and am myself smiling as I write this. Thanks, Bob.
As I told him one of my own favorite typos is when I wrote many years ago from Tahiti to a friend that I was rereading there WAR AND PEACH. I did catch that one. And still think it a good title.
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Although I would rather see the Chicago Cubs win the World Series than any other team, I have sold-out.
It is truly beyond imagination and belief that the Cubs have not won the Series for, I think, 103 years. Places have won the World Series that were not even places when the Cubs last won. I think of Arizona and Florida, which had more gila monsters and alligators 103 years ago than people.
However, it is not going to happen this year--or perhaps ever--and I’ve grown tired of watching the Cubs and the White Sox lose; so I signed up for MBL.TV and now for $80 a season I can see every game by every team, which mostly means watching the Red Sox and the Yankees, hoping the Sox win and the Yankees lose. Even when the Yankees win, this is a very big improvement.
Sunday, July 24, 2011