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The Schulte Boat took first place in a nearly 4 hour race on Talk Like a Pirate Day!
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The Schulte Boat took first place in a nearly 4 hour race on Talk Like a Pirate Day!
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Do they get to row?
ReplyDeleteNope! Goodness, who would want to row a 42' sailboat with full keel? Mind you, it's been done...as Solings don't have motors. So when the wind dies and there are no other boats around to lend a tow line, that's sometimes the only option. But that's rare...because our sailors check the weather report! LOL!
DeleteMight just give them an edge, though! As memory serves me, that replica Greek trireme they built a few years back could get up to 8 knots with a crew of 150 (or was it 170?) volunteers, not experienced rowers.
DeleteThey were going about 6-7kts. It's a team of two people...one on tiller and one tending the spinnaker or the jib and generally tending the sheets (sails). No one has time to row and I don't think it would be safe for them to try to row that hard or fast! 😆
DeleteBut! To answer your actual question, I asked and NO, rowing would get them disqualified. (I've never heard a complaint about that. 😉)
DeleteMy attempt at humor. But I recall a story about 18th Century warships becalmed, in which the boats were launched and the crew or crews towed the ships to either escape or engage, I don't recall which. I wonder if it could have been in the battle between the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis.
DeleteThe number of babies infected with syphilis was already surging. Then came the pandemic [Click] Damn. I shouldn't be surprised if TB has ticked up too, although it takes longer to become symptomatic.
ReplyDeleteHow utterly, sorrowfully tragic!
DeleteWhen I was training as a medical laboratory technologist there were still a lot of MT's working (and teaching) who remembered the results of syphilis back in the days before penicillin. BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD. Which reminds me that the official Covid death toll in the US has, or is about to, equaled that of the "1918" influenza. But the population of the US is about three times what it was back then. And I very strongly suspect that the current attributed death toll is a significant underestimate. Not that the 1918 statistics were perfect, either.
DeleteWow.
DeleteThanks, Alan. We should definitely mark the moment.
Rep. Tim Ryan (D) of Ohio has tested positive for Covid-19. Rep. Ryan is fully vaccinated and his symptoms are mild. Says he's grateful he got the vaccine, or it could be so much worse.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/tim-ryan-coronavirus-positive/index.html
VERMONT 20 SEPT 2021 (Numbers are since SATURDAY)
ReplyDelete31,764 - 31,361 = 403 since Saturday
No new deaths!! 🙂 (298) (% of deaths dropped .1%!!!)
4063 active cases (+187)
46 (+4) hospitalised; 15(+1) in ICU
2241 more Tested
216 more Recovered (86.3%) (-.4%)
Positivity rate down! to 2.9% (-.2)
(I heard on the radio that there were 295 cases reported Sunday.)
DeleteEarlier today I shared a favorite quotation from Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi," and shortly thereafter realized I had never read the book! So I just now downloaded it from gutenberg.org onto my trusty old Kindle, which I recently revived. It needed a new battery, and it turned out that said battery is both inexpensive and VERY easy to change. I hadn't used my Kindle in years, so it took a little while to remember how to operate it, but operate it does. Evidently no one has ever improved the browser, but it is adequate for its intended purpose (downloading books).
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I bought the Kindle with advertising on the front page, which cost less. But now Apple has stopped broadcasting such advertising. Not that it was any particular nuisance.
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