adventure

When I was a kid, I dreamed of being an astronaut. In the 70s NASA was floating some crazy space engineering projects too like the L5 space station. A hollow air filled cigar 18 miles long lined with civilization spinning to recreate earth’s gravity. But NASA became a pale joke to it’s mighty...

We've just taken our first tentative steps with a site served by a hosting company. Since 1995 we've always run all our own servers but as we'll be selling the house we won't be able to house and tend our own servers any more so now we're web-renters :) We'll see how well we manage to keep...

I'm new to this board, so I may not be putting this in the right forum, but I thought I'd share. A little bit of back story - I and a few of my friends own an Ericson 27, 'Wino Country Safari' and sail it often around Seattle's Lake Union and occasionally around Puget Sound, up to the San...

:scared: On our return from Catalina the head plugged up. We had been too careful about not filling the holding tank with water ... big mistake ! So, the dreaded job for the Memorial Day weekend was to unplug it ... obviously man's work. I'd had almost two weeks to plan it out and dread it...

Update: Adventure and Misadventure With the help of a friend (who is a competent sailor), I've transported the boat across the Georgia Straight from Nanaimo to her new temporary berth in North Vancouver. :egrin: Unfortunately, the trip was not free from incident. :esad: First, let me...