First: The strangest liveaboard I have seen yet.
The sails hoist up the aluminum frames on each side like upside down window blinds. The steps on each side of the hull are boxes that also serve as sponsons to increase stability. Their effect on resistance isn’t clear. Well, maybe it is.
No reported sightings of it under sail or whether it has lived up to its owner’s hopes.
Even stranger:
I just a few days ago saw a photo and explanation of an exceedingly rare cloud formation called a “Hole Punch Cloud” or “Sky Punch”. The mechanism isn’t completely understood but is believed to be ice crystals forming above a cloud layer and the cooled air and crystals then falling through the cloud tearing out a round hole that makes people think of UFO motherships.
I was walking around town waiting for the snack bar to open so I could buy ice when I looked up and saw one.
It held its shape for a remarkably long time after the tail of falling ice crystals had disappeared.
More on this phenomenon here:
http://www.weathervortex.com/sky-holes.htm
To be seen in Saint Marys Sunday:
Oprah! Coming with her show “Lovetown USA” . There will be a rally and party on the waterfront at which up to 20,000 people are expected. The town started filling up with production crews this morning, the apparent population doubling within the space of an hour.
http://www.oprah.com/own/Lovetown-USA-About-the-Show
Not to be seen in Saint Marys on Sunday:
Me.
A nice breeze was coming up as I rowed the ice out to the boat and the noseeums had been plaguing me the whole time I was waiting for it so I sailed over to Cumberland Island. I love it when I can raise the anchor and set it again without ever turning on the engine, especially when I can sit in the cockpit afterwards and watch wild horses walking along the shore 100 yards away.
It's going to be a real buffet for those noseeums on Sunday.
The sails hoist up the aluminum frames on each side like upside down window blinds. The steps on each side of the hull are boxes that also serve as sponsons to increase stability. Their effect on resistance isn’t clear. Well, maybe it is.
No reported sightings of it under sail or whether it has lived up to its owner’s hopes.
Even stranger:
I just a few days ago saw a photo and explanation of an exceedingly rare cloud formation called a “Hole Punch Cloud” or “Sky Punch”. The mechanism isn’t completely understood but is believed to be ice crystals forming above a cloud layer and the cooled air and crystals then falling through the cloud tearing out a round hole that makes people think of UFO motherships.
I was walking around town waiting for the snack bar to open so I could buy ice when I looked up and saw one.
It held its shape for a remarkably long time after the tail of falling ice crystals had disappeared.
More on this phenomenon here:
http://www.weathervortex.com/sky-holes.htm
To be seen in Saint Marys Sunday:
Oprah! Coming with her show “Lovetown USA” . There will be a rally and party on the waterfront at which up to 20,000 people are expected. The town started filling up with production crews this morning, the apparent population doubling within the space of an hour.
http://www.oprah.com/own/Lovetown-USA-About-the-Show
Not to be seen in Saint Marys on Sunday:
Me.
A nice breeze was coming up as I rowed the ice out to the boat and the noseeums had been plaguing me the whole time I was waiting for it so I sailed over to Cumberland Island. I love it when I can raise the anchor and set it again without ever turning on the engine, especially when I can sit in the cockpit afterwards and watch wild horses walking along the shore 100 yards away.
It's going to be a real buffet for those noseeums on Sunday.
