We can’t stay away for long. The bigger the body the better. We just returned from a brisk walk in Collingwood, along the shores of Georgian Bay. Water, across which an opposite shore is beyond the horizon. Southern shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario. Bays, oceans, tidal rivers and enormous lakes are an aphrodisiac of sorts. …
Category: Thoughts
More Random Boat Stuff
More weird stuff we have set up aboard Fayaway. Maybe a better name would be "tips and tricks" or a second installment of the popular post “Seven doo dads”? For other boaters the ideas might be obvious and not worth pointing out. We can’t claim credit for some, and more likely they’d been acquired or …
Canadian Stepping Stone
Ok folks. Are you sitting down? “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”— Kurt Vonnegut Sailor Kelly and I are taking a year off from living on the water and heading north to friendly Ontario, Canada, to embark on a different adventure - this time via …
More Wanderlust?
What's wrong with me? Seriously, what drives this incessant thirst for dropping the hook in unfamiliar coves and then paddling over to introduce ourselves to strangers? (Kelly cringes every time I do this! Stranger Danger!) Nah, I say, overwhelmed with curiosity and thirst for discovering new people, places and things. Like a pilgrimage, we plod …
Derecho
We’re never too old to learn, and this morning I learned a new (to me) weather term: A derecho is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system. Derechos cause hurricane-force winds, heavy rains, and flash floods. Roht Roh (Scooby Doo …
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