Harrowing end to a nice uneventful day with Ginger---so glad you chose to do it on a day where you could make it all work Dan J.

I just got an update about 9am from Dan Pence on his adventure today with Ginger. He had crossed the bar and heading South. The weather and conditions are fine, he has motor-sailing with a following w

Impressive and ambitious Dan J . Bon voyage!

Dogfights are a gas...I've done it with foamie prop planes and also gliders (at Peterson Butte near Albany)...laughed my a$$ off...

Dang John---another reminder of how old I'm getting owning that boat! :-) Yeah, ducted props on electrics---I joined the ElectricBoats forum on Yahoo in 2003, the year I converted the Reach Of Tide's

It’s pretty clear that the combination of pandemic remote work gigs combined with early retirements and an increase in active ownership of camping vehicles during the pandemic has led to crowded camps

I did a several weeks of contract work in Mar/Apr. When suddenly the mask mandate went away, several people at work who had a cough dropped their mask like everyone else (but me). Even wearing my mask

Its’ funny: After some 10 years running the Reach of Tide as electric (originally inspired by your building Ginger as an electric J ), I ditched lead-acid for lithium. I could hardly rationalize it. F

Enjoy!

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My wife and I did the Sauvie circumnav while the other 2 boats that met us at Sand Island went downstream instead. Sand Island has docks as does Coon Island about 8 miles upstream on the channel where

I’m in.

Harrowing tales... A couple modern harrowing adventures experienced and told by Stephen Ladd: https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Ladd/e/B000APK00A?ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_byln

While we're noting steamboats that lived past the age of steam, one could mention: S.S. "tug" Master: owned by SS Master Society in Vancouver, Canada. Operated as tug '22 thru '62, has since run excur

The article is inaccurate to state that the wheels and the engines were all removed cca. 1962. Engine/boiler/etc, sure, but she had at least damaged wheels and cowling clear up until the point when th

Great story…glad it ended up in the hands of another group of skolekinder…

"you'll shoot yer eye out"

Dang Cal…guess you are immune to korona J Indoors you take your mask off if you don’t want to wear it? Not a good idea. I’d suggest following the State rules on indoor masking requirements, with a nar

Good advice. I was not symptomatic but took the test because, well, to show moral support for my wife who suspected she could have gotten infected from her best friend (who DID test positive after lea

The instructions help? There was nothing in the instructions I read that said to shove it up until it couldn’t go any further, simply to insert a short distance until you “feel resistance”. My wife an