Position: LICKING THE SPOON Note: Biscuits in English are cookies in American. Biscuits in American are scones in English. This blog is written (mostly) in English. Biscuits form a crucial part of seafaring life. Hardtack, perhaps the oldest form of …
Position: 45°31’07.3″N 122°40’58.4″W Nautical terminology is highly specific. When the captain calls out, “Double the starboard bow line and tie it off on the starboard bow cleat, then release the port breast lines”, there isn’t room for interpretation. It is …
This week we continue our occasional series about famous sea craptains. For our more sensitive readers please note this entry contains salty language, such as that typically employed by sailors – and plumbers… Position: 57°21’00.0″N 1°39’00.0″W April 1945 – off …
Position: 45°37’02.0″N 122°40’18.1″W Having criss-crossed the globe vertically and horizontally in the past couple of months, it occurred to me that our oblique definitions of first, second and third world countries are just that – oblique. The traveller, if they …
Position: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD “You MOFOs and your FOMO! Sheesh! Get your MOJO back with some JOMO.” – Boris Spinovsky In the realm of first world problems, the psychological condition of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) certainly reeks …
Position: 1994 I’m a hoarder. I admit it. It’s not pretty, but there you have it. You might not know it at first glance. After all I live on a boat with about 350 square feet of space to put …
Position: Snoozing Hello friends, do you have trouble sleeping at night? Does your mind race and keep you awake? Do the stresses of the day keep you up late? If so, you need Overnight! The latest wonder drug from Aleta …
No Luddites Here Never let it be said that the crew of Aleta are a bunch of Luddites. Perish the thought! Not only do we embrace fancy navigation technologies like AIS, radar, and satellite communications, as an inherently lazy bunch …
If glamorous camping is ‘glamping’, then surely glamorous boating must be ‘gloating’[1]. Surely! But what constitutes gloating in this new nautical sense? First a couple of root definitions: Boating – means simply messing about in boats. A boat is any …
