HeyJaredA Serious Ocean
I have been in the breezes most of my life. As a sailor and writer, I've been fortunate to blend my passions: boats, books, travel and the sea, to create a story that's occasionally harrowing, often funny, at times enlightening, and rarely boring.
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The Case for the Hard Dodger (opens the original)
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Sitting in the companionway, tucked behind Quetzal’s hard dodger and drinking a steaming cup of coffee, I thought about how different our Drake Passage crossing would be without cockpit protection. The conditions were not great but manageable with 25 knots of hard edged wind just forward of the beam, sporadic blasts of cold, horizontal rain, and iffy visibility. We were nearing the convergence, or polar front, and the presence of icebergs kept us on our toes. Every few minutes I made my way to t
Reefs and Riddles (opens the original)
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I confess, I can be a bit reckless about mixing metaphors. Comparing the shifting sands and mud flats of the gloomy Frisian Islands in the North Sea with the brilliant coral minefields that form the Great Barrier Reef is case in point. But stay with me and hopefully the connections, which span more than 100 years, won’t seem as absurd as they sound at first read.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EfXA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:stee
Multimeter Basics (opens the original)
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Crossing the Coral Sea (opens the original)
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I was doing everything I could think of to change the forecast. Meditation, humming, sacrificing a dram (a wee dram mind you) of my favorite Glenmorangie whisky into the harbor (yes, without drinking it first) and even going so far as to turn my computer on and off a few times. Alas, nothing worked, every weather model showed the same thing - at least two days of stiff headwinds followed by nearly a week of very light winds and calms. Maybe I was being paid back for the near perfect conditions t
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