One of many waterspout pics to be found on Flickr.
Archive for August, 2007 Page 2 of 11
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
Dudes in an OC-? tearing along behind a kite. Found at Kiteboat.com, the site seems like it hasn’t been updated in a long time.
For the Ulua, perhaps?
Searavens (and guest) charter a Catalina 320 for an overnight cruise from Santa Cruz to Monterey. Flat seas, but 20 - 25 kt winds in middle of the bay…
Annika on helm
Your Correspondent
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Picture a beautiful beach spanning miles of coastline, gently lapped by aqua-colored water — and sprinkled with glass.
Ouch? Think again. It feels just like sand, but with granules that sparkle in the sunlight.
Faced with the constant erosion of Florida’s beaches, Broward County officials are exploring using recycled glass — crushed into tiny grains and mixed with regular sand — to help fill gaps.
It’s only natural, backers of the idea say, since sand is the main ingredient in glass.
“Basically, what we’re doing is taking the material and returning it back to its natural state,” said Phil Bresee, Broward’s recycling manager.
[full story YahooNews/AP]
And you thought getting sand up your swimsuit was bad…
Proper paddle stroke for sea kayaking demo’d by a pretty girl. Her PFD meets the USCG standard of “will turn most unconscious wearers face-up in the water”.
A compendium of flying submarines, both real and fanciful, may be found at Dark Roasted Blend. Enjoy, but come back!
Artist Frank Boelter set sails in his lifesize paper boat as he leaves a shipyard in Lauenburg, Germany.
He constructed the 9-metre vessel from ‘Tetrapack’ and fearlessly sailed it up the Elbe, despite the fact the light material is more commonly used for packaging milk.
The 37-year-old artist came up with the idea one breakfast time, while he was sitting at his kitchen table fiddling with an empty milk carton, which he cut up and made into a scaled-down model.
The £110 boat is 30 feet long, weighs 55 pounds, uses a 170-square-metre piece of Tetrapack paper, and took only two hours to construct.
Boelter said it will survive forty days before it disintegrates into a wet, sinking mass.
It is part of the artist’s exhibition named ‘Bis ans Ende der Welt’ (Until the end of the world).
It’s aqua-origami, all right, but is it art?
[link to original story The Daily Mail]
Friday, August 24, 2007
A celebration of a fictional mermaid in Denmark, which featured hordes of bikini-clad women forming numbers in the water, was interrupted on Wednesday by swimming protesters dressed up as sharks.
Business as usual, then.
The event was a celebration of the 94th birthday of Copenhagen’s famous waterside Little Mermaid statue – based on the fairytale figure created in 1836 by famous Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen. As part of the annual celebrations, women clad in bikinis boarded a canal boat and released red and white balloons in the air, the colours of the Danish flag.
They then jumped in the water just behind the statue…
[Link to full story at Metro UK, with video goodness]
This beautiful statue of a mermaid sits by the sea at Playa Esterillos, south of Puntarenas, Costa Rica. When the tide is high, she disappears under water.
Here’s an interesting human-powered vehicle. Christened the RoadBoat — a cute play on names, since it’s powered by four “rowers”, but travels on the road — it was designed and built to set a record for a trans-Canada ride back in 2001. A followup attempt would seem to be in the works.
- More at davintosh
- rowingacrosscanada.com
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