A couple of "end of the world as we know it" books that involve the sea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(Sch%C3%A4tzing_novel)...
I bought some extra methyl hydrate to use as my own hand sanitizer, hopefully I won't have to use my stock of Everclear... We had a short trip...
I saw this a couple days ago and looked it up and it's legit... the guy who wrote it is who he says he is. The only caveat he added is that he...
Last one for now... This Cal 25 has been around the Creek for a couple years, the picture is from Nov 2019. Since these guys (almost all are...
Here's another collection of iffy boats from last month (Feb 2020): [ATTACH] Last summer, the coast guard almost did something about the old...
This was orignially posted in the "Rogues" thread, I think it makes more sense here (and it's just a link to the pic already on the YF server, so...
Maybe here?...
Not available here in Canada, either.
A variety of older small sailboats used wells, but I'm not aware of any new-ish models that have them. A local example is the Thunderbird, e.g....
They're still not high enough resolution to see the details, but I was able to get "better" versions by: - click on the thumbnail to view it - on...
All waters in Canada are federal jurisdiction, but the problems tend to happen at a local level, so every local jurisdiction has to come up with a...
This is what you get when you don't enforce anchoring restrictions:
This is just another routine launch ramp failure, but I thought the followup was interesting... Twitter video:...
There's an article about the rebuild/restoration in the latest Professional Boatbuilder magazine - April/May 2019 issue.
I don't know how it works in the US, I have the impression that multiple levels of government have jurisdiction over the use of water. In Canada,...
Pretty sure they're not just tied up... The picture on this story shows more clearly what you can make out in the picture on the original post:...
Oh yeah, it's a totally solvable problem, but no one wants to touch it. Probably the only reason the current system works at all is that the city...
Maybe the CG can do that in theory, but in practice they've said they won't. They will respond to a situation where there is imminent danger e.g....
I'm curious what other places do about people with so-so boats who anchor in "nice" areas of a city. False Creek in Vancouver is a very protected...
Yeah, I live in the False Creek part of Vancouver Canada. We have multiple very full marinas here and several sailboats that are moored to buoys....
