Good morning,
My wife and I are enjoying our Ericson. A lot. She has invited friends and family to share her dolphin viewing. This has resulted in assorted aborted excursions due to barfing, and other nausea related maladies. She now has a plethora of anti-puke wristbands, stickers, ointments, pills and some other application methods I don't know names for and had no idea existed.
But the point of the post - our table doesn't like being left out and opens at various points of sail. My wife is extravagantly creative when it comes to nibbly-bits, so it could just be wondering what she brought this time. Perhaps we don't feed our guests (or ourselves) enough and it is just reminding us to be good to ourselves.
But my take on this is that the table has gotten out of control and is now inappropriately insisting on "time for food" with banging open and shut announcements, and I've started to put on weight. The dogs laying next to it have become annoyed with its poor behavior as well.
My brother-in-law mentioned it might be an easy fix to use some sort of clasp. I did some searching for an item and learned about "Steam Punk" and a lot of other styles and materials that don't seem quite right.
On that trip back we had a lovely beam reach with a following sea and put up the gennaker. This resulted in a max speed of 7.8 knots of Ericson surfing.
Uhm, should I try to beat that speed record?
So this "swing clasp" may do the job, but I'm curious about its longevity. Are there any opinions / solutions already put into service?
Also, while on the south side of Catalina on a previous trip, in the 30-40 seconds it took to process what we were seeing ahead of us was orca fins, we were in the middle of them. Seeing dozens of big white-and-black splotchy bodies without Sea World's plexiglass wall between us was .... invigorating. I'm assuming there is a standard procedure around that kind of whale?
My wife and I are enjoying our Ericson. A lot. She has invited friends and family to share her dolphin viewing. This has resulted in assorted aborted excursions due to barfing, and other nausea related maladies. She now has a plethora of anti-puke wristbands, stickers, ointments, pills and some other application methods I don't know names for and had no idea existed.
But the point of the post - our table doesn't like being left out and opens at various points of sail. My wife is extravagantly creative when it comes to nibbly-bits, so it could just be wondering what she brought this time. Perhaps we don't feed our guests (or ourselves) enough and it is just reminding us to be good to ourselves.
But my take on this is that the table has gotten out of control and is now inappropriately insisting on "time for food" with banging open and shut announcements, and I've started to put on weight. The dogs laying next to it have become annoyed with its poor behavior as well.
My brother-in-law mentioned it might be an easy fix to use some sort of clasp. I did some searching for an item and learned about "Steam Punk" and a lot of other styles and materials that don't seem quite right.
On that trip back we had a lovely beam reach with a following sea and put up the gennaker. This resulted in a max speed of 7.8 knots of Ericson surfing.
Uhm, should I try to beat that speed record?
So this "swing clasp" may do the job, but I'm curious about its longevity. Are there any opinions / solutions already put into service?
Also, while on the south side of Catalina on a previous trip, in the 30-40 seconds it took to process what we were seeing ahead of us was orca fins, we were in the middle of them. Seeing dozens of big white-and-black splotchy bodies without Sea World's plexiglass wall between us was .... invigorating. I'm assuming there is a standard procedure around that kind of whale?
