Blewtooth
Sailing Blewtooth; my little Westerly Tiger SailboatMonday, July 30, 2007
Extreme Beachcombing
Found: One small sea serpent
ABNT20 KNHC 300205
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1030 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2007
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE...CENTERED ROUGHLY 300 MILES
WEST-SOUTHWEST OF BERMUDA...CONTINUES TO PRODUCE DISORGANIZED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN.
ALTHOUGH UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE NOT PARTICULARLY FAVORABLE FOR
FURTHER ORGANIZATION TONIGHT...THIS SYSTEM STILL HAS SOME
POTENTIAL FOR TROPICAL OR SUBTROPICAL DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NEXT
COUPLE OF DAYS AS IT MOVES NORTH-NORTHEASTWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH.
HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM COULD OVERSPREAD BERMUDA
OVERNIGHT. PLEASE SEE PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER
SERVICE OFFICE FOR MORE DETAILS.
ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS.
$$
FORECASTER BLAKE
Could be moving into the Chesapeake or further north?
Well, yes I have been doing some avid beachcombing lately. To me it is better
than yoga for relaxation. Gives great exercise and you can find interesting things
(interesting things to me anyway) Yeah that's right, I am easily entertained.
A piece of rope in the sand, shells with strange shapes and colors....that's all
I need man to amuse myself for a while.
More Links:
Search and Find a Boat, Yacht or Ship
The Hurricane Watch Net
Ultra-Lightweight Lithium Batteries
Welcome to Capitan Ashton Web Page (World Circumnavigation Voyage)
More stuff I found by waking up way too early and not trying to go back to sleep.
When am I gonna learn!
Good Sailing,
Rocko
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Am I becoming a Luddite!?
Atlantic - Caribbean Sea - Gulf of Mexico
There are no tropical cyclones at this time
Eastern Pacific (out to 140°W)
Tropical Storm DALILA
National Hurricane Center
Luddite!
What an awful sounding name for someone who doesn't like engines!
Luddite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And now "Neo Luddiism"!
Luddism
But they keep saying "hatred of NEW technology" in their description. Well what then describes me? I don't hate new technology; I embrace it. I love the new solar, wind and electric motor technology. It's the old crap that I hate. Gas and deisel engines and especially those without polution controls which the boat builders along with Home Depot and Wallmart (lawn care equipment) are selling with wild abandon.
What brought all of this on this morning was my glancing at the BBC news headlines and finding the below article:
BBC NEWS | Health | Diesel pollution 'clogs arteries'
Planet Ark : Diesel fuel exhaust likely to cause cancer - US EPA
And so getting back to the subject of sailing, how many of us love the idea of sailing along our coast; wheather it be east, west, south or north; trying to get from port A to port B when the wind is contrary and we have to turn on the engine and start our motor sailing routine? Usually no deisel or gas fumes to worry about with the wind off any points on our bow but every time we tack or what have you we will be getting a little wiff here and there of that good old deisel smell. That smell usually brings a feeling of adventure in me. I guess just associating it with "going somewhere" and the general excitment of traveling. But when we drop the sails and motor our way through the inlet and are calling the marina on the radio we all start to smell it. Then we breath those fumes as they waft around us from our transoms and we don't even notice it. It's mixed with all of that fresh air from the sea. Then the rest of the times motoring up the ICW or rivers, canals and byways; waiting for the bridge to open and so on; motoring into the marinas.
Just how much of it are we picking up?
And of course for those of us with outboards and A4s:
Gasoline fumes have 1000 times the concentration recommended by NIOSH. ... It causes liver cancer, with a latency period is 15 to 40 years. ...
consumerlawpage.com/article/cancer.shtml - 21k -
The Cancer War Needs An Informed Public: Known Carcinogens To Be Avoided
None of our engines have any type of pollution control that I know of. I guess we all just think "Hey it's a sailboat for crying out loud!" but it's really not. It is an "Auxillary" sailboat that 99% of us are on. Neither does our lawn equipment, generators etc.
Lawn mowers, Weed Eaters, Leaf Blowers
"Another source claims that operating a gas mower for one hour will produce the same pollution as driving a car 1300 miles. (Note 4)"
Lawn Mower Pollution
I don't know how else to describe my views though. I am just really getting tired of people's attitudes (especially young people's) about technology. I know that it is completely impractical to hope that we will all stop wanting the most powerfull car, motorcycle or boat. But jeez! When is everyone going to realize that we could solve so much of our pollution problems just by cutting back a little bit. We could become so much more powerful in bargaining for energy from all of the oil producing countries if we weren't such energy addicts.
Most Powerful Diesel Passenger Car
The pollution from internal combustion engines is choking us to death. I hate the fact that the grass on every consumer's lawn needs to be cut constantly in the summer with one of the worlds most effiecient pollution machines; the lawn mower which has no catalitic converter, nor does the weed eater or leaf blower which also throws up as much dust as possible into our air and of course it is the dust that is full of the latest fertilizers and pesticides that have been scattered on the ground. So that along with all of the pollen finds it's way into our lungs as we dart from our air conditioned cars to our air conditioned homes that all are becoming hermitically sealed against the "outside" air with new weather stripping and heavy insullation and such.
UMU.Asthma.7.21.02.PDF (application/pdf Object)
Then we can't understand why our kids are all comming down with asthma. Just sad to know how non carring the western consumer is. Now wait a minute...I'm not trying to compare the western consumer to anyone else in the world. God knows what anyone else in Africa or some small village in the hinterlands of India thinks or cares about it. It's just that we are supposed to be the enlightened ones and instead we are acting like someone who is completely non caring....sacrificing the future of our children for our immediate creature comfort needs.
Well, ......................................I'll shut up and quit whinning......
And on a lighter note here is some more evidence of my aimless clicking on sailing stuff and a travel blog sent to me by a friend:
Boat Shows Coast To Coast : Boat Show Calendar and Directory
I always liked the looks of a San Juan
San Juan Sailboat Photo Gallery
A Sailing Cruise to Florida's Panhandle
Couple says the were not lost at sea
Latitude 38 - Northern California's Premier Sailing and Marine Magazine
Travel blog page
Emerald Bay
Good Sailing and Traveling
Rocko
There are no tropical cyclones at this time
Eastern Pacific (out to 140°W)
Tropical Storm DALILA
National Hurricane Center
Luddite!What an awful sounding name for someone who doesn't like engines!
Luddite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And now "Neo Luddiism"!
Luddism
But they keep saying "hatred of NEW technology" in their description. Well what then describes me? I don't hate new technology; I embrace it. I love the new solar, wind and electric motor technology. It's the old crap that I hate. Gas and deisel engines and especially those without polution controls which the boat builders along with Home Depot and Wallmart (lawn care equipment) are selling with wild abandon.
What brought all of this on this morning was my glancing at the BBC news headlines and finding the below article:
BBC NEWS | Health | Diesel pollution 'clogs arteries'
Planet Ark : Diesel fuel exhaust likely to cause cancer - US EPA
And so getting back to the subject of sailing, how many of us love the idea of sailing along our coast; wheather it be east, west, south or north; trying to get from port A to port B when the wind is contrary and we have to turn on the engine and start our motor sailing routine? Usually no deisel or gas fumes to worry about with the wind off any points on our bow but every time we tack or what have you we will be getting a little wiff here and there of that good old deisel smell. That smell usually brings a feeling of adventure in me. I guess just associating it with "going somewhere" and the general excitment of traveling. But when we drop the sails and motor our way through the inlet and are calling the marina on the radio we all start to smell it. Then we breath those fumes as they waft around us from our transoms and we don't even notice it. It's mixed with all of that fresh air from the sea. Then the rest of the times motoring up the ICW or rivers, canals and byways; waiting for the bridge to open and so on; motoring into the marinas.
Just how much of it are we picking up?
And of course for those of us with outboards and A4s:
Gasoline fumes have 1000 times the concentration recommended by NIOSH. ... It causes liver cancer, with a latency period is 15 to 40 years. ...
consumerlawpage.com/article/cancer.shtml - 21k -
The Cancer War Needs An Informed Public: Known Carcinogens To Be Avoided
None of our engines have any type of pollution control that I know of. I guess we all just think "Hey it's a sailboat for crying out loud!" but it's really not. It is an "Auxillary" sailboat that 99% of us are on. Neither does our lawn equipment, generators etc.
Lawn mowers, Weed Eaters, Leaf Blowers
"Another source claims that operating a gas mower for one hour will produce the same pollution as driving a car 1300 miles. (Note 4)"
Lawn Mower Pollution
I don't know how else to describe my views though. I am just really getting tired of people's attitudes (especially young people's) about technology. I know that it is completely impractical to hope that we will all stop wanting the most powerfull car, motorcycle or boat. But jeez! When is everyone going to realize that we could solve so much of our pollution problems just by cutting back a little bit. We could become so much more powerful in bargaining for energy from all of the oil producing countries if we weren't such energy addicts.
Most Powerful Diesel Passenger Car
The pollution from internal combustion engines is choking us to death. I hate the fact that the grass on every consumer's lawn needs to be cut constantly in the summer with one of the worlds most effiecient pollution machines; the lawn mower which has no catalitic converter, nor does the weed eater or leaf blower which also throws up as much dust as possible into our air and of course it is the dust that is full of the latest fertilizers and pesticides that have been scattered on the ground. So that along with all of the pollen finds it's way into our lungs as we dart from our air conditioned cars to our air conditioned homes that all are becoming hermitically sealed against the "outside" air with new weather stripping and heavy insullation and such.
UMU.Asthma.7.21.02.PDF (application/pdf Object)
Then we can't understand why our kids are all comming down with asthma. Just sad to know how non carring the western consumer is. Now wait a minute...I'm not trying to compare the western consumer to anyone else in the world. God knows what anyone else in Africa or some small village in the hinterlands of India thinks or cares about it. It's just that we are supposed to be the enlightened ones and instead we are acting like someone who is completely non caring....sacrificing the future of our children for our immediate creature comfort needs.
Well, ......................................I'll shut up and quit whinning......
And on a lighter note here is some more evidence of my aimless clicking on sailing stuff and a travel blog sent to me by a friend:
Boat Shows Coast To Coast : Boat Show Calendar and Directory
I always liked the looks of a San Juan
San Juan Sailboat Photo Gallery
A Sailing Cruise to Florida's Panhandle
Couple says the were not lost at sea
Latitude 38 - Northern California's Premier Sailing and Marine Magazine
Travel blog page
Emerald Bay
Good Sailing and Traveling
Rocko
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