Conundrums
Full disclaimer - may not be worth taking your TIME to read this bit of musing. The concept of time takes on many different meanings in all of our lives, literally all of the time. On a boat it is ever-present. Schedules and routines are regulated and occur based on some measure of time. Directions
Weather, or whether….
Featured Image by David Thoreson "Sailing vessels have destinations, not schedules," an oft repeated adage spoken by experienced sailors of a certain age. One Ocean has now been home to a team of enthusiastic sailing educators of varying ages for over 135 days, covering 7,000+ nautical miles, and
Longitude
In 1675 King Charles II commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to build an observatory in Greenwich, England to “improve marine navigation and find the so-much desired longitude at sea for perfecting the art of navigation," this according to an excellent book by Dava Sobel, Longitude, which dives deep
Magnetism, Ice and Gin
On the days when ice allows us to move forward, time travel comes the closest to expressing what we are really feeling. The passages we are traversing have been used by hardy souls for hundreds – maybe thousands -of years. Most of what we see has spent eons under ice. As the ice slowly shifted or
On the move from Herschel Island
Our plan to stay a few more days at Herschel Island in Pauline Cove changed quickly this morning. The predicted calm weather will end in less than 24 hours, about as much time as it will take One Ocean and crew to sail to Tuktoyaktuk, a very safe and secure port from wind and ice. We weighed anchor
Waiting
Dave Logan, friend/sailor/thinker and accomplished tinkerer recently joined the crew of the good ship One Ocean, currently tied to a dock in Nome, Alaska. Many of you will remember that Dave was instrumental in preparing Ocean Watch for our circumnavigation of the Americas in 2009/10, as well as
Charts, Graphs and The Gulf of Alaska
We are at the midway point of our first ‘ocean’ crossing. Elfin Cove, situated on the northwest corner of Chichagof Island, to Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, one of the Aleutian Islands on the outer end of the Alaska Peninsula. Just for scale - 1022 nautical miles – roughly the distance from Seattle