Thursday, March 28, 2013

Eating Mesquite

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The mesquite is a small leguminous tree that grows throughout the American Southwest.  It blooms early in the year and then, late in the yea...

The Problem with Food

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Recently, a friend gave me a few packages of fresh herring.  Herring were running in San Francisco Bay and he had caught and frozen about...
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Grinding your Own

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 A year ago or so we ran out of coffee while camping and while in town, picked up some more coffee.  I checked the bag that the coffee was...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Preparing for the Apocalypse

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Screen shot from the video game, The Last of Us, published by Naughty Dog The creative arts are often a good indicator of a culture'...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Sea Otters, the Dark Side

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A male sea otter was making unwanted advances on a sea lion at Moss Landing, CA.  The sea lion took refuge on the back of a kayak that hap...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Never Mind the Plastic Problem

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See my previous post about the problem of plastic polluting the oceans. This post here, is a never mind disclaimer to that post.   Stay ...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Our Plastic World

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I saw a link to this video on Facebook the other day. http://vimeo.com/8177268 Far as I can tell, it's a promo for a k...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Curious Seal

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One of the things I noticed when kayaking is that seals will occasionally pop their heads out of the water to see what I am doing. Humans ...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

Why We Blog

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I think of blogging as a form of drawing attention to oneself.  But who exactly is paying attention to the blogger?  Is the attention that...

Ventilation/Air Subduction & other reasons why paddles don't work as well as they should

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One of my readers recently informed me that what I called air subduction already has a name in the field of boating, namely, ventilation.  O...
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Friday, December 28, 2012

Air Subduction in Kayak Paddles and cavitation in lee boards

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I don't know if subduction is the right word to describe the phenomenon of air getting sucked down along the back side of a kayak paddle...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Skin on Frame Housing - the yurt gets a roof

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Progress on the yurt continues.  Much of the progress is imperceptible to anyone but myself but the progress is there.  As it turns out, my ...

Sail Speed Records

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New speed records for sail powered water craft are being set constantly. The latest by the Vestas sailrocket is 65.45 knots.  Of course th...

Sail Drone, further thoughts

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In my original post on the sail drone, I expressed some pessimism that the thing would work.  In the meantime, the saildrone people put up s...
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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Sail Drone

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While driving to work a few days back I noticed some people hoisting a small red airplane looking thing from a trailer.  As the lettering on...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Swedish Americas Cup Boat

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I thought I'd post some more pictures of the Swedish Americas cup boat.  Far as I know, it's the same as all the other contenders...