My LED Trick
So I’ve been playing around with LED lights, and I discovered something. I don’t know how useful it is, or whether it will diminish the life of the bulb, or cause a fire, but that is all beside the point.
So I’ve been playing around with LED lights, and I discovered something. I don’t know how useful it is, or whether it will diminish the life of the bulb, or cause a fire, but that is all beside the point.
While many aspects of a “stationary” cruising life are the same as regular life, mornings aboard Del Viento are never a mad scramble, the days are never a pressure cooker.
I thought Canada was the 51st state. No, not literally. But I did think living here would be nearly indistinguishable from life in the United States. It ain’t so.
The Robertsons find that life aboard in the wintertime is more damp than they expected.
Now immersed Victoria city life, but with no car and no car to borrow, we are reaffirming our pleasure of being unencumbered by an automobile.
“They’re announcing an evacuation of the marina. It is not a drill.”
To get to Victoria, we had to come up the relatively desolate Washington coast until we could make a right turn into the strait that separates the United States and Canada: the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This is all new and exciting geography for the crew of Del Viento.
70-year-old British solo circumnavigator Jeanne Socrates left Victoria, BC, Monday morning to begin her third attempt at an unassisted, non-stop solo circumnavigation of the planet via the great southern capes.
As a cruising family we’ve lived temporarily in solitary anchorages, Mexican cities, and historic seaside towns. In Victoria, we look forward to something we haven’t had since leaving D.C.: Big City Life.
The time for safe and comfortable passagemaking in the northern latitudes is past. Del Viento and her crew are going to settle in for a period.
The Robertsons find that being stuck in Astoria, Oregon, isn’t so bad.
The crew of Del Viento discovers if you haven’t been aground, you haven’t been around.
So I’ve been playing around with LED lights, and I discovered something. I don’t know how useful it is, or whether it will diminish the life of the bulb, or cause a fire, but that is all beside the point.
While many aspects of a “stationary” cruising life are the same as regular life, mornings aboard Del Viento are never a mad scramble, the days are never a pressure cooker.
I thought Canada was the 51st state. No, not literally. But I did think living here would be nearly indistinguishable from life in the United States. It ain’t so.
The Robertsons find that life aboard in the wintertime is more damp than they expected.
Now immersed Victoria city life, but with no car and no car to borrow, we are reaffirming our pleasure of being unencumbered by an automobile.
“They’re announcing an evacuation of the marina. It is not a drill.”
To get to Victoria, we had to come up the relatively desolate Washington coast until we could make a right turn into the strait that separates the United States and Canada: the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This is all new and exciting geography for the crew of Del Viento.
70-year-old British solo circumnavigator Jeanne Socrates left Victoria, BC, Monday morning to begin her third attempt at an unassisted, non-stop solo circumnavigation of the planet via the great southern capes.
As a cruising family we’ve lived temporarily in solitary anchorages, Mexican cities, and historic seaside towns. In Victoria, we look forward to something we haven’t had since leaving D.C.: Big City Life.
The time for safe and comfortable passagemaking in the northern latitudes is past. Del Viento and her crew are going to settle in for a period.
The Robertsons find that being stuck in Astoria, Oregon, isn’t so bad.
The crew of Del Viento discovers if you haven’t been aground, you haven’t been around.
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