COASTAL FOOTPRINT

COASTAL FOOTPRINT

I found a blog some Haida sailors have up, admirable mission!

Found a cool Haida Blog

Lindare!

Clay Mathematics Institute: Millennium Prize Problems

So I figured out how I am going to rule the world:

Phase 1: Investigate Navier-Stokes equations.
Phase 2: Understand them

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Uh oh.

Phase 3: Collect Million dollar prize.

Phase 4: Use knowledge to create hella good sailboat.

Final Phase: Sail boat.

Classes

http://www.math.washington.edu/~dumitriu/m380_au10.html Math 380, with Iouana Dumitriu. Intermediate Topics. Mostly proving things.



http://courses.washington.edu/phys331/index.php Phys 331, with Joe Rothberg. Optics Lab.



http://www.math.washington.edu/~zchen/M394.html Math 394, with CHEN,ZHEN-QING. This is a fun class. It is half a broken-english translation puzzle, and half a set of probability problems. This actually might prove to be a valuable skillset, even though I never planned to learn it!



https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/benstph/16368/92462 Math 300, with Ben Stephens. Very code-centric.




Sailing on through.

Cockpit Seats

The cockpit benches on Keet are complete!

Materials

1/2 acx superply

Polyester Resin

Alkyd Primer

White Gloss Alkyd Paint

Epoxy

6oz Cloth

4oz Tape

Brass Drains

Drain Tubing

SO-PAC Hatches

This was a pretty huge first project in glasswork, but now I can tackle almost anything!

Hatches

Hatches. Mine are gone. I tore the cockpit seats out, and now I have holes.

They used to look similar to this.

Homonyms

 

I just finished reading Dove by Robin Lee Graham. Go read it yourself. It is an inspiring story that brings dreams down to earth. 

Let me climb up onto my tall bike and cast some judgment upon thee. The writing is prosaic, but the simplicity is almost soothing. There are no flashy plot devices or interesting thematic ideas. It is a simple account of the circumnavigation of Dove. While it does not make for challenging reading, it is still engaging, simply by the merits of it's subject matter. Denotation is enough for this piece, intended connotations are basically absent, or evaded me completely. 

I would recommend reading it, but it isn't a book that you can read over and over again. 

Lee sailed around the marble in the Lapworth 24.