one more colour.

20°35' 30" N
41°30' W
0700 UT
25.2.08
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this afternoon i stoppd briefly en route to the tool hatch and decided that the ocean is reallly... blue.






not just sort of blue. but blue blue, and as far as you can see in every direction for days and days.

here's one. google maps accepts lats and longs. so i should put a link to the google maps thing. or maybe google earth, but less people use that than the maps thing i think. also, if i write the word google many times, perhaps google will like me better and aweard me with a higher google ranking, or perhaps some kind of google points. we watched a film the other day in which the word 'google' came up lilke three times in the first half hour. i wonder how much they paid for that one. product placement is indeed the way of the future.

got a bit of a sunburn. sorry, winnipeg. not gloating, just saying. oops on the burn. i was enjoying the afternoon more than usual. or more outside than usual. my noctuarnal watch usually has me in the don't need to be in the sun but there i was in the sun and only partially suncreened. d-uh. well. on the plus side, there's some great moisturizer on the boat that is for the inevitable drag of not using enough of the boat's sunscreen.

spin sail repair was a bomb. it lasted maybe 15 minutes and then tore in the spot that was repaired before by the pro dudes. the one marilyn did today by hand seemed to have held just fine. but it appears that the patch was UV damaged or something. reminds me of ripsalot, the fly on lise brown's 6 wk in 2002. ultraviolet damage makes me sad.

so the plus side might be that i can make som hammocks out of the remnants. and spinnaker sails are HUGE. so i'd be able to make a hammock for everyone on the boat, matt says: 'and then sell the rest to tourists in antigua.' ha ha. or possibly make a sun canopy for the front part of the boat. i'd also consider replacing the kinda yukky hammocks that i am storing under my mattress. they're just not in the 'as new' condition in which the boat is maintained, and to which i have become accustomed. except for my foul weather gear.

more rheostatix back catalogue today. played guitar for nearly the entirety of my watch. i used to listen to 'introducing happiness' nearly every day. you'd think i'd be able to remember more words than i do. also that scott nolan tune:

since you've been gone
it's all i've been dreaming of
what the summer felt like
to the person that i was
maybe our hearts fooled us somehow
it's all over. all over, now.

this tune must have more (other) words than:

'she always looks like she's leavin'.

but the problem with learning piles and piles of songs is that the words where there are backup harmonies are the words i learn first. and first lines of songs and sometimes of verses. though last time i didn't get a mic and only had one gig or maybe two with the scott band after i finally got a recording of the tunes. that's okay. i was too scared to sing anyway. that would require actual rehearsal and all kinds of nebulous factors, the correct phase of the moon, red gummi bears, another gig with the scott band. stuff like that. also scott nolan doesn't use a set list. ever. so i actually have no idea what this song is called. it's the one in C that goes: 'she always looks like..' scott wins with this one the 'most killer first line' award.