Up until that time, #LAMI operated and sailed the 70' gaff-rigged topsail schooner, Swift of Ipswitch (previously James Cagney's personal yacht) for it's youth sailing program. It took a few years to complete the Irving and Exy Johnson, sister Brigantine vessels built and outfitted by dozens of volunteers over the duration of the program. At some point, another gaff-rigged schooner was borrowed and enlisted, the136' Bill of Rights filling the need for accommodations of a youth sailing program that had greatly expanded over time, with many ups and downs, achievements and disappointments, but building two square rigger tall ships for and by a non-profit organization dedicated to youth educational programs for the community, a truly novel pursuit, eventually came to a close as a great success.
This photo shows the 113' brigantine Irving Johnson, on 23 March 2005, and which, after less than three years of service, she had run hard aground on a sandbar following several storms that affected local charts, leaving them partially obsolete - in short, on her way into the Channel Islands harbor, well... sadly, the pic speaks for itself.
Another year and two million dollars later to repair structural damages and flooding, the #Irving_Johnson once again joined her sister ship, #Exy_Johnson, in the pursuit of education as #school_ships, something that Irving and his wife Exy (Electa), following no less than 7 circumnavigations together, pioneered and championed in the 20th century aboard their three successive sailing ships - a #schooner, a #brigantine, and a #ketch - each named the #Yankee.
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Questions always follow after such, 'salty talk', or 'nautical nomenclature', or in #Star_Trek terms, #technobabble.
What's the difference between a mizzen topgallant sail and a main royal staysail? Just a few rules is all it takes, but in today's world, one need only avail themselves of the basic Marconi rig on a single masted sloop. There's a mainsail (the big triangular one aft of the mast), and a jib, or foresail. Typically, when speaking about a jib (the one forward of the mast), people will typically categorize them into about three classes:
a #Storm_jib - smallish, for reduced sail area in high and gale force winds.
If you're rigged to run one jib, you're a #sloop; two, and you're #cutter rigged.
tl;dr: Unlike elections, rigging is a good thing. Without standing rigging you have nothing to hold your masts up in place and they'll just snap or fall over. Without running rigging you have no way to control your sails, hoist them up, or catch the wind.
So when it comes to sailboats, it's a very good thing that they're rigged :p
Republicans and Democrats, as well as voters and political pressure groups could learn a lot from #Australia when it comes to #rigging an #election in a two-party system:
I will die on this hill:
We will not fix our democracy until we start doing criminal prosecutions of the wealthy again. Not just weakly using DPAs and fines
and prosecutions of corporations.
Musk and the hospital execs in the news today must face threats of jail.
No fine will ever break a billionaire— they just pay out some funds and move on. But criminal charges can take down their lifestyle and hold them truly accountable. #musk#doj#trump#indictment
@protecttruth Check it out! Tesla today advertises that their Model 3 range is 333 miles. Competitors generally fall in the 200 to 250 mile range and Tesla gets all sorts of positive press for their "range advantage." But it is all BS. Tesla's average is around 200 miles and in winter it can be as low as 124 miles. Still, they continue to be credited as the range leader. Lying works!
@protecttruth So, to be very clear here. Tesla has not only grossly exaggerated their vehicles range...
"Now, new Reuters reporting reveals how systematically Tesla managed that gap: by reportedly rigging its range estimation software, by manipulating what its dashboards showed drivers, and even by creating a “diversion team” to smother customer complaints."
I rigged another character with my #rigify feature set. (The character is 'Rex' from iAnimate)
I'm quite happy with the way the spine turned out. It's a custom bendy bone chain with armature constraints that sits on top of the default rigify spine.
I tried many times over the years to get a something working this way.
Hi all! I've been here about a month. So it's probably time I made an #introduction
I'm an animator and rigger based in Australia.
Mostly, I help people learn animation and #rigging at CGCookie. I also have been working with Fuzz #animation for a long time and work on the occasional freelance TVC.
I'm also a husband and a Dad of a 3 y/o which keeps me very tired...I mean busy.
Ah who am I kidding. It keeps me very tired and constantly interrupted but I try not to be a grumpy dad. #rigging
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