010-The Little Re Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge

It’s real, it’s not just a sweet children’s story! I know the Great Gray Bridge as the George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River and I didn’t know there was even a lighthouse at its base. Sadly, the lighthouse is totally lost to all the goings on around it. But there it stands, that is if you can see that dark spec at the base of the bridge.

I don’t really remember the story that well but I read it to “the cousins” at their bequest. They loved it and wanted it read over and over again. I doubt you could sit down and create a book like that, it just happens, you can’t plan something like that in advance. Anyway, I looked on-line to get a copy as we floated by only to be impressed how many people cherish the book. Amazon had a huge variety to choose from, many costing in the low hundreds and some in the high hundreds. Even the digital versions were popular selling in the teens. Who could have predicted that one? I kinda like the book cover better than the real thing, its that imagination thing.

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051 - Med Style Anchoring – It’s so European

It’s complicated but it really lets you pack them in. Having done it now 3 times now, I hope I’m done with it. For us it’s complicated by the tender hanging off the stern and our stern anchor rode being 300 ft long in the bottom of a lazarette under a pile of other items. All the rode has to come out into the cockpit for attaching to a tree on the shore. It makes for a messy operation. Let’s see if I can explain. To anchor med style, you have to be able to backup well, which being a sailboat puts us at a distinct disadvantage (can you hear me saying powerboat would be better here too, but I won’t say it). You also ignore the winds as you will back into a parking spot between other boats anchoring the same way. You “simply” pick a spot, throw out the bow anchor in front of it, back into the slot and tie a rope to something substantial on the shore, and put out bumpers for your neighbors. That’s all you have to do. So we pick...

032 - Bugs in the Middle of the Lake. Really?

Yup, bugs in the middle of the lake. Why the not the shoreline? How do the bugs get to the middle of the lake? Did they fly out here and if so for what, to find a boat? Or do they breed out there and if so, why don’t the fish eat the larvae or the insects themselves? It’s one of those questions in life that probably has an answer but it’s just to fun to be outraged over the unexpected. It all made me laugh at the “Breaking Bad” episode on “the fly” where he destroyed the lab for one fly. We didn’t destroy the boat, but then we had more than one as are documented in the photos above. We found out after the fact that the FAA had radar blips for the billions of mayflies that hatched while we were on lake. I believe it. I’d never seen anything like it. So thick we had to wash the deck of the dead and their green goo. It had a nauseating stench with it too. But it was just the beginning. We were inundated o...

047 - This Isn’t The Chesapeake Bay

We’re in a different place! The waters of Lake Huron are a Caribbean turquoise, so much so that had you told me I was there I would have believed you.

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