Props to Peeps

Nice blog here about sailing and life. Found him when he answered a question I posted on the Catalina Owners Forum.

Also, I got a huge spike in visitors when I put kitty cats in the labels in an older post so we're doing that again just for experiments sake.

Just Some Guy Blog

Props to Peeps

This video I put together a couple years ago should have been my very first props to peeps post. I'm perplexed by my profound paucity of perspicacity.

Here is a link to the video of the launching, and launch party, of the s/v Famous Grouse built by amateur boat builder Big D (no one calls him that), Denny Mike (his mother called him that), Dad (I call him that), Dennis Peavler.

I play the dual roles of aft port boat bearer and Spaulding Smalls. My performance was panned by both the theater and marine journalism communities.

Photo courtesy Chaney Brown nee Peavler of Chaney Peavler Photography. Wanted to be specific there so you don't confuse her with any of the other photographers named Chaney you might know.

Tour Report

Took a short trip Friday. Sometimes when it's slow at work I like to take a little time, even if just an hour or two to take her out and race myself around channel markers 6 and 7 on Lake Travis.

Wind was hit or miss but the weather was nice.

Hey, I get to sail in December... not much, really to complain about... except the Saild app, which, despite being the method of reporting this trip here, still sucks.

Started a new project yesterday to make some bags to organize the halyards. Pics and post in the next day or two.

The Sea Was Indifferent, My Friends

I had been saving up my play time for the week for a day of sailing today, however the winds did not participate. The lake was like a mirror.

A couple call backs from earlier posts: First, tried to use the saild again and it sucked again. Second, the electrical system seems to be back to ship shape. I still need to mount and cover the new negative buss bar, but I'm glad I installed it. It's cleaned up everything quite a bit.

Since I've no news to report, here is a picture of a heron for your trouble.

Props to Peeps-ish

Jamestown is not really peeps in the same way that the Savvy Sailor is, but they are an invaluable resource. Great selection, pretty good prices ( always check Academy Sports first ) on specialty products, perhaps the best part are the how to articles and videos.

Jamestown Distributors, Minion, check it.

This is only a test...

This is a test post to see if my automatic notification settings are working...

Apps

Minion, mozzarella sticks, fried pickles, guacamole and nachos are all better apps for sailing than saild.

Saild is supposed to be a simple route tracker, social media, simple stats recorder for the non-racing sailor who still wants some amount of data regarding their sailing trips.  I don't necessarily need SOG as a function of the lay line or numeric representations of the polar chart for my C22. Sometimes I am curious if I made it from channel marker 6 to 7 faster than last week, in the same way that sometimes you're curious how your frigid, shrew wife's sparkling eyes and childlike joie de vie had been replaced with a pallid visage and slavish devotion to the rigorous tedium of middle class life. Perhaps there were times when you had noticed the change happening. Perhaps there were times when you could have interrupted what now seems like the inevitable march toward stagnant complacency with her, with yourself, with life, but they're gone now.

Those lost opportunities are now just irrelevant, annoying reminders of the pestilent petulance of youthful hope. The hope is gone, the woman you knew is gone. You, the you you were, the you you could have been: gone.  Left is that frigid, shrew and her empty, rote, muscle memory induced peck on the cheek as you leave for work and the irrepressible hope, somewhere deep, down, in the darkest corners of you soul that this will be the day the #4 bus from Park Fair Mall to downtown runs that red light at Euclid and, well...

What saild actually is, is a cavalcade of bugginess that would make an etymologist uncomfortable.

(Minion, that's a really funny, smart joke where I pretend to mix up etymology with entomology as a function of the word "bugginess". See, entomologists study insects, "bugs", and etymologists study the history of words and 'bugginess" is not an accepted word yet. It's still just vernacular. Keep up, Minion.)

The last three trips I've taken I've thought I've saved pictures to the route. I haven't. I've thought I've saved the route itself. I haven't. There is no recovery feature, there is no temporary save.

On the other hand it is free. So....here's a picture of a kitty cat. Meow: