A blog by nerds afloat
After clicking on a post and reading it, hit the “Back” button on your browser to return to this page so that you can read only the highlighted posts. Otherwise, if you click the “Next Post” button on the post page, you will be stuck reading the whole blog! WordPress really sucks sometimes! (Okay, fine. Mel sucks at WordPress. This is hard, people!) There are still a lot of posts– about 135. Hop to it!
Which is why this post is short. We have some big waves coming from 150 degrees that confuse the autopilot, so it requires some surveillance. Nothing broken at the moment. Made 185 nm in last 24 hrs. Stupid Raymarine has … Read More
So Calamity has joined the crew. Mel was wondering when it would show up. Of course, Calamity always comes at one o’clock in the morning, which is during Mel’s shift. We were merrily sailing, making 8 kts, when Mel looked … Read More
Dear Ocean, Mel is very sorry for accidentally littering in you. She had unfortunately forgotten about the 6″ giant googly eyes she had velcroed to the forward deck in an effort to intimidate, well okay, amuse, the other participants in … Read More