And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Alluring Arctic is a YT channel by a couple from Finland who spent the winter in the ice in a bay in Greenland. They had sailed the NW passage starting in Alaska.
Apparently, there are some places in the arctic which polar bears do not visit. The man on the YT channel I mentioned here explains that. Search his last several videos.
May be a a stupid question, but....why are the sails up?
ReplyDeleteFor increased visibility? To dry the sails? To increase the wind load, to rock the boat to keep the hull free?
DeleteI'm just guessing.
All good guesses. I like number 3.
Deleteagreed, good answers.
DeleteJust because God gave you money ,doesn't mean He gave you brains to spend it right.
ReplyDeleteWattsamatta, you afraid of adventure?
DeleteAlluring Arctic is a YT channel by a couple from Finland who spent the winter in the ice in a bay in Greenland. They had sailed the NW passage starting in Alaska.
ReplyDelete(sailboater here) I'm worried about the access Polar Bears have with the crew. Crunchy outside and chewy inside?
ReplyDeleteApparently, there are some places in the arctic which polar bears do not visit. The man on the YT channel I mentioned here explains that. Search his last several videos.
Delete"He told me we'll buy a boat, sail around the world, said it would be fun, the Faroe's will be grand."
ReplyDeleteGuessing it was at anchor and things froze up around it.
Hope they packed a lunch, or maybe a couple hundred of them.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Ice, by Tristian Jones. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24677.Ice_
ReplyDeleteEarnest Shackleton Cruise lines......................
ReplyDeleteLooks like a harmless kind of crazy, but definitely crazy.
ReplyDeletewas supposed to be only a 3 hour tour
ReplyDeleteLots of traffic in and out.
ReplyDeletea handsome gaff-rigged boat.
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