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- lagoon 440 manual
having said all that about the fork business. i struck a fork into a not
alas. since i am not buying the flatware, i can't complain, can i?
watch today has been entertaining, since i started standing watch, the star of the show has got to be this three-masted schooner. a tall ship, square-rigger. it was a wee speck against the french coast (or is it spain? i should check) and it has been a most lovely sight in the meantime. one by one the sails have come out. it's nearly in full sail now. first, a sail in the center mast, in the middle, now, a mizzen mast mainsail. might be called a bermuda. the anatomy of a tall ship is a bit out of my experience. perhaps one day.
we're considered a bermuda rig. mainsail and foresail. ours is called a Genoa, which is i gather a region of italy where someone invented the sail. or whoever decided it should be called that was from there (or something). i am thinking the Solent sail is called that because the innovation came from shipwrights there. similarly the Bimini and so on. occasionally russ called our foresail a 'yankee,' but it seems no so much since we acquired the american woman who owns a piece of the boat.
teri has an iridium sat phone and can use it to get weather information. which we like. she calls MacDonalds the 'american embassy.' which she likes. the iridium connection is actually pretty cost effective; not yet convinced i'd indulge, but she says it works great with a send /receive function. some of what i have been after, i think, is the phenomenon of 'unplugging,'
as leighana says. on the one hand, if i am going to be at sea, then i should oughta just be at seas sometimes. hey?
oh yeah! another lunar eclipse of the full moon while at sea. though partial and clouded over for a good portion of the event.
