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Topic: Health & Injuries
By Alex on February 6, 2005, at 0408 UTC
Topic(s): Birds, Health & Injuries, Knockdown, Turbine We seem to be dropping out of the high and getting some of the breeze from all the isobaric spaghetti to the south of us. Twin polingAn explanation from Malcolm: It is quite normal for a yacht to 'pole out' its jib (the foresail) on the opposite side of the boat to the mainsail when running downwind - this is called goosewinging'. A spinnaker pole is attached to the mast at one end and the back corner (clew) of the jib at the other. That holds the jib at the right angle so that it catches the wind. On Berri they've found that they can often get good performance and a comfortable ride by taking the mainsail right down and setting a second jib poled out on the opposite side to the first. and tracking just north of east (T) at 4834S. Looks a bit windy below 49 so we wont go there. The seabirds are back … Continue reading
By Alex on April 16, 2005, at 1700 UTC
Topic(s): Health & Injuries, Shipping, Space station (ISS) 1700hrs 16 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 170Map Ref 170
Here we still are, part IV or whatever. Not a lot has changed except that the wind has dropped to 25 and we’ve got some sail up again. General conditions much the same but at least the boat is a … Continue reading
By Alex on April 21, 2005, at 1100 UTC
Topic(s): Food, Health & Injuries 1100hrs 21 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 177
Our dig out to sea yesterday paid off earlier that expected – the wind freed a bit in the evening and we were able to tack back on to a course parallel to the coast and abut 200 miles out. Still holding … Continue reading
By Alex on April 25, 2005, at 0000 UTC
Topic(s): Bus shelter, Health & Injuries We’ve been sitting on our milk crates here in the studio wondering what’s happened to the old geezerDictionaries define a geezer as an old person, generally an eccentric old man. Its origin likely in the word masquerader (colloquially, guiser) from Middle English gysar. Go figure, as the Americans say. who trundles over with a trolley with printouts of all your emails to the website. He hasn’t been since the 21st, so no mail since then. But he just turned up with a few scraps of paper and we think there must have been a problem with SailmailSailmail is the system that Berrimilla uses for email communication. It is a non-profit association of yacht owners operating a network of private coast stations in the maritime Mobile Radio Service.. … Continue reading
By Alex on April 25, 2005, at 1430 UTC
Topic(s): Health & Injuries, Whales 1430hrs 25 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 182
Long list of acknowledgements – Thanks to everyone who mailed us over the last few days – Ian & Maggie, Olivia, Tricia, Johnny B ((thanks for the morale booster – coming from you, dems fightin’ woids), ArletteClearly worth going all the way … Continue reading
By Alex on September 11, 2005, at 0415 UTC
Topic(s): Health & Injuries 0415hrs 11 Sep 2005 UTC 12’45”N 024’53”W Ref 349
There’s a layer of haze all around the horizon and a very bright star or planet in the SE, just below Orion’s left foot and just above the haze – it is so bright that it has its own sparkling reflection … Continue reading
By Alex on November 8, 2005, at 0500 UTC
Topic(s): Health & Injuries 0500hrs 08 Nov 2005 UTC 39’53”S 046’25”E Ref 532
Well, life does have its ups and downs. There we were, all ready to charge off to frighten some French penguins to the very unfrightening tempo of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy when along comes the ExaminerShe who asks … Continue reading
By Berrimilla on September 26, 2009, at 2357 UTC
Topic(s): Health & Injuries A stay of execution.
What I had confidently expected to be a routine extraction by the Gnasher Trasher turned out to be anything but.The amazingly competent Dr Bruno decided a rearguard action to save the tooth was worth a try and she blasted her way down into the murky and … Continue reading
By Berrimilla on September 27, 2009, at 1826 UTC
Topic(s): Health & Injuries Once upon a time in what seems like another life altogether, I was delivering a Safety and Sea Survival course with Gerry Fitz. One of the students was a medical Doctor who was working in the casualty department of one of Sydney's busiest inner city hospitals. I asked her if … Continue reading
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