Sail Delmarva

10-17-2012, rev. 8-1-2024    Certain objects cry "nautical" from the first glance: A wooden ship's wheel, a brass lantern, wo...

9-16-2017, rev. 8-1-2024 Human nature--or at least American nature--is to covet and to believe that bigger is always better. But if that we...

What do the battery makers think about water quality?  They are pretty particular: What difference does it make? This is what Trojan...

 Eyes outside of the cockpit?    

 I imagine he took up residence when he was small, and then one day learned he was stuck. [sail drive]   I'm currently 22 months into a ...

 ... Should corn go into fuel or food? In the past, since I didn't favor ethanol in gasoline for environmental and operational reasons, ...

 Let's see... 2 trips per month 12 months About 1 quarts per trip ... Equals 6 gallons per year. At $5.00 per gallon, about 30 gallons p...

On vaccines and masks:   A great flood happened. A man was forced to climb to the second floor. He was looking out the window and a canoe p...

A desert island question, or rather many remote areas, even in the US. You are on a beach with plastic debris. There is no access to recycli...

 It's supposed to pass 60F next week. I won't know how to dress. Time for some fast sailing. It doesn't like like double digit s...

rev. 7-25-2024  Don Jordan, the father of the series drogues, suggested a chainplate of conservative dimensions, but did not detail the desi...

 There we were, sailing across the Chesapeake in moderate winds when, something small and hard clattered into the cockpit from the masthead....

 I'm not normally into sunset photos, but this one by a fellow F-boater (Farrier forum) caught my eye. The reflections look like fog flo...

rev. 7-25-2024 I posted this December  2020, after the last election but before it was certified. Little did I know where things were headed...

 The Blue Book is where you find used car values, right? Well, not in 1906, when there weren't enough used cars to create a market or th...

      90 degree heat and single-digit speeds suck.  A nice 15-knot breeze and speeds over 10 knots  make with worth the extra layers and a l...

In fact a good many have been one by a single electoral college vote. history of close races   The voter turnout is the striking thing. Over...

I missed this one. We all heard when Trump ruled that e15 could be sold. What we missed, probably because it was only publicized in Iowa (...

Though I've been primarily working from home and observing, my work requires me to travel through rural areas and stop in travel plazas....

I don't know why it took me so long to reproduce for home use, a design I have used in industry for decades. Never used wire mesh (ba...