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March 31, 2009

Surf City.

Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA USA

FotoJoe

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Posted at 06:27 PM in Board sports, Surfing | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

I found some wind!

Oh, oh, oh!
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite!

FotoJoe

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Posted at 12:31 AM in Board sports, Kite Surfing | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

In Search Of Wind.

Score!

Low Tide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He giveth with one hand, he taketh with the other.

The hell with it, let's get some oysters!
Crown Beach, Alameda, CA

FotoJoe

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Leaving The Dock.

Here is one the handouts I made for my sailing students.
For some unknown reason they would never read the assigned book, but they would read my handouts.

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Posted at 12:12 AM in Sailing | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)

Multihull Monday. ..... Another Monday Theme!

I found a very large cat while looking for some wind.
Nelson's in Alameda.

FotoJoe

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Posted at 12:01 AM in Catamaran Sailing, Multihull Sailing | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

March 30, 2009

Maritime Monday.

Port of Oakland.

Bound for Hawaii.

The Empire Strikes Back .... or should I say out?
There is a lot less product arriving from the Middle Kingdom.

FotoJoe

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Posted at 11:48 PM in Grab Bag, maritime | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

March 28, 2009

Bad Taste.

I'm sorry Bunty, you're right. It won't happen again.

Posted at 06:08 PM in Commentary | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

March 27, 2009

Fish On Fridays.

Hey Joe, where's the wahine?

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Posted at 06:03 PM in Fishing, Silly | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

March 26, 2009

Weekday Wahines. Transworld Surf's 10 Hottest Girls In Pro Surfing.

Cough, cough, cough ..... read .... okay, look at more here.

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Posted at 05:50 PM in Surfing, Wahines | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Solar Plasma Balls. Warning Will Robinson, The End Is Near!

From The New Scientist:
IT IS midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived. Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment. Then all the lights in the state go out. Within 90 seconds, the entire eastern half of the US is without power.

A year later and millions of Americans are dead and the nation's infrastructure lies in tatters. The World Bank declares America a developing nation. Europe, Scandinavia, China and Japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event - a violent storm, 150 million kilometres away on the surface of the sun. Continue reading.

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Posted at 02:23 AM in Science | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

March 25, 2009

Wednesday Wipeout.

There should be no dispute over this one, it's a trick!

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Posted at 06:54 PM in Oops, Surfing | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Boat Of The Day. The PK 520.

The PK 520 is an updated version of the III C Finish sailing canoe designed by Erkki Ruokonen and Torolf Bäckman. What a knock out!

From Erkki: "I haven´t heard from you for a long time, how is living behind the Big Sea? I´m working hard with customers boats, as usual. At the moment life goes on while working on a new Catboat, drawn by Warner L. Winthrop in the 1930`. Interior is soon ready and it will be covered with a teak deck. Later in the spring I start working with to kayaks. And there is a huge 38 ft. mahogany motorboat that needs a lot of care, but it won´t be in the water this year. I have started to draw a new IIIC, much simplier than PK 520. I have a short video clip of PK 520, would you like see it? (YES!) The PK 520 works well, it´s a true beauty and quite fast too. My own dinghy sailing experience is a VLL ( a Very Low Level ) so it was not a big news to realize that the water was cold and wet during the first trial and errors with PK 520. We haven´t done nothing yet to simplify the drawings, so I must discuss with Torolf about it. Here is a picture of IIIC."

Awesome! Read more here.

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Posted at 06:46 PM in Canoe Sailing, Sailing | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

March 20, 2009

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Oops! Have a better weekend than this guy.
Via Wet Ass (The Twitter version).

note: Unlike most Twitter users, Tim is not a twit.

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