Boats for the West River

We made them using leftover stuff we had laying around...  And they did quite well.  Rosemary wanted to let them go and see if they would make it to the Connecticut River.  The girls (Maud and Harriet) named them "Pizza" and "Chopper".

Now This Is Racing

Check this out.

Final Jeopardy: Literary and Movie Title Objects

The inspiration for this title object in a novel and a 1957 movie actually spanned the Mae Khlung River.

dah, dah, dah, dah,... dah,dah,dahhh,... dah, dah,.. dah, dah,. dut,dah,dah,dah,dah,dahhhh

what is "The Bridge on the River Kwai"

maybe you guys have already heard that some guy won $77,000 on Jeopardy breaking the one day record total set by Ken Jennings.

PFD Required

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDToL593cmU

lock out!

At a swimming hole in Vermont over Labor Day weekend

The Day After Labor Day

Katydid

Appropriately, Katydids belong a group called the singing insects. Somehow it read Lauren's sign and then came by to enjoy the sing-a-long concert by the Deck Rats. There are more than 300 different kinds of Katydids. I'm guessing our visitor was an Angle-winged.

Coming Soon...

Coming Soon... To a Theater Near You!

Keepin' the Streak Alive

Hey, how come the Dock Rats Greatest Hits isn't on Amazon? I want a copy.

Captain Emma

In the absence of my regular crew, Emma sailed with me in last Tuesday's Harbor Sailboats races. But I pulled a swicheroo on her — I asked her if she wanted to steer, and to my surprise she said yes. So it was all up to her (albeit with a little advice along the way), and the result: Second-place finishes in two of four races, and tied for second overall. She left some veterans wondering: Who is that girl?

It took us 4 days and 4 people but we finished...

While the rest of you were sailing or working

The Maris Stella Yacht Club and Crossword Society was busy.  Not very neat, but complete.

Getting Ready

Just ate lunch at "Jersey Mike's" in Solana Beach CA. I had a "Jersey Shore's Favorite" sub (provolone, ham, and cappacuolo) — not a White's, but it whets the appetite. On the sailing front (as Ross may already have told you), we west-coast sailors took first overall in the Harbor Sailboats summer regatta. It's almost time to see how we stack up against east-coast sailors....

18 Miles of Beach

The Atlantic Side

ocean temp ... 71 - 74 F.

Regatta 2010

NOR... be there or be DNC

Long Beach Island New Jersey

Report Date
7/14/2010
Wave Size
1 ft - 2 ft
Wave Condition
Fair
Morning Tide
High - 10:10 am
Afternoon Tide
Low - 4:15 pm
Wind Speed
5 - 10 mph
Wind Direction
South
Water Temperature
70 - 74 F
Sky Condition
T-Storms

The continuing adventures of Marge of Mahwah

Giddy-on-up

Got a Saddle?

Hey, does anybody know how to get on this thing?

Hup . . . Chip, Chip!

Memorial Day weekend marked opening day on Long Beach Island. Beautiful weather - hot and sunny. The water was cold - but we all got in. The sailing was sublime - a nice steady breeze from the east led to an easy sail from the Barnegat Light public beach all the way to the osprey nest and back. And, of course . . . White's.

Sunfish forum

I just noticed Dennis Connor is contributing to the sunfish forum.

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

Thank you, Ross, for sending us our Yankee Swap gift. I'm sure we'll be seeing it at the shore. And in a little preview from the game, which we played tonight, I give you a question from the "Third Grade Poetry" category:

In the poem "Eletelephony," which one of the following doesn't the elephant try to use?

A. Telephant
B. Elephone
C. Teletusk.

Good luck.

Land of the Pharoahs

Numerology

Dave and I were out sailing last Tuesday afternoon on S. D. Bay.

Tuesday is widely considered the third day of the week, however, according to international standard ISO 8601, it is the second day of the week. It was named after the Old English god Tiw. Tiw is a god of war and law, or, in other words... sailboat racing.

As we were preparing for our Tuesday p.m. races a rather large nice looking sloop sailed by with the sail number 77213.

Well, if you add the 2 plus the 1, I observed, then you get 7733. Interesting.

You never know how many members will show up for the races on any given Tuesday. Tonight there were 7 of us. And there was just enough time to get in 3 races.

We have been one of the more successful boats in the club but we haven't been able to get to the top in a long time.

In the first race Dave picked the correct side of the starting line and got us off to a great start. Strategically we covered our serious competition and we kept the boat going fast. That's all there is to it. First! The bullet.

Numero Dos. Except for a couple of tight spots in the first upwind leg this was pretty much a repeat of race #1. First! another bullet.

In the third race, the race committee changed the line but we still got a very good start and reached the upwind mark in 1st place. We got caught from behind by some wiseguys who got us into a tacking duel on the following upwind leg which allowed another boat to sail free and clear and take first in this race. We finished 3rd.

But overall, for the night, 1 & 1 & 3 = Blue Ribbon!

Afterwards we stopped at a bar and had some Margaritas ( a cocktail made of tequila, triple sec and lime). Interestingly there are 3 'a's in the word Margarita. Now, if you take the 'm' which is the 13th letter of the alphabet and subtract ......

Track & Field

The guy in the picture holding the spear took 3rd place in the 2010 Foothill Conference Championships, Men's Javelin. (8 colleges in the conference)

"A" = our house, more or less

New addition to the fleet

Regards from Boston

How many points do I get?

The face (and the hairstyle) of a gold medal winner

The 33rd America's Cup in numbers

1 America's Cup

2 boats: the catamaran Alinghi 5 / Société Nautique de Genève & the trimaran the USA (BMW-ORACLE) / Golden Gate Yacht Club

6 venues in 159 years: New York (the USA), Newport (the USA), Fremantle (AUS), San Diego (the USA), Auckland (NZL) and Valencia (ESP)

7 countries have reached the America's Cup Match (England, Italy, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and the United States)

24 sailors in the official crew listing: 14 on Alinghi 5, 10 in the USA

39 TV channels acquired the broadcasting rights

79 nautical miles of racing: 40 in the first and 39 in second

More than 5,000 plates of paella served

60,000 people attended the event inauguration in the Marina Real Juan Carlos I of Valencia

656,000 unique visitors watched the live racing direct through the official web site

2,800,000 visits to the cup website (www.americascup.com)

My television debut

Where have all the flowers gone?

young girls pick them every one

Good old days

Bringing Crabbing Back to Barnegat Bay

Bringing crabbing back to Barnegat Bay
Posted by Andrew Mulok/The Star-Ledger on January 7, 2010 at 05:21 PM

Human activities over the past 50 plus years has degraded Barnegat Bay and much of the shellfish living in it. Loss of wetlands due to development, over fertilizing, waste, chemically treated lumber among other things have had a cumulative effect on the health of the bay. The Barnegat Bay Crab Restoration Program is a partnership with the Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The program hopes to replenish the crabs, as well as educate people about the causes of the conditions of this delicate ecosystem. This season, volunteers of recrabthebay.org are re-introducing more than 2.5 million crabs in hope that a naturally reproducing crab population can return once again.

On the Boat

January 1, in search of Heermann's Gulls & Cassin's Auklets and any other interesting birds that fly by.