Odin and Oie are returning to service! Two beautiful Sonars, Odin and Oie, are former #Paralympic Class #sailboats that have a decorated history in #PacificNW#sailing competitions. After several years of sitting idle, they are being returned to service.
Time to get outdoors (or at least dream about your next adventure)! Explore these 5 Magazines to follow for stories about sailing, hiking, cycling, fly fishing and more.
⛵ American Sailing Association: Resources for new and experienced sailors: tips, instructional videos, travel guides for faraway cruising destinations and quizzes to test your sailing skills. @american
🥾 Hiking the World: Read hiking experiences, locations, trails and fun stories! We hope that this motivates you to get outside and enjoy the outdoors. @hiking
🧭 Hiking Trails Explorer: Join us as we traverse rugged landscapes, share expert tips for navigating wilderness terrain, and uncover the beauty of nature's playground. @hiking
🌳 Outdoor Adventure: From extreme sports to backcountry expeditions, this mag provides readers with inspiring stories, expert advice, and stunning photography that showcases the world's most awe-inspiring outdoor adventures. @outdoor
🎣 The South African Fly Fishing Magazine: Latest news, reviews, updates, activities and venues for fly fishing in South Africa. @the
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Of course there were things to do; there always were, and some of them could even be listed in the "important" column.
But at the moment, nothing seemed more important than standing in the yard, overlooking the bay filled with sailboats, and just letting one's mind glide from one thought to another, as if it too were sailing on the bay.
@Wen
My memories of Scandinavian ports visited as a ships engineer are still vivid after almost 50 years.
Stockholm was a 2 hour passage past I believe 2,000 islands.
The tankers I was on were relatively small, 12,000 tons, so we got right into cities rather than miles away.
Happy days, with young wife with me 😎
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It was a good day, a quiet day, and it passed pleasantly out on the water as one literally watched the world go by.
Or more accurately, the world stayed in one place as you sailed by it.
And now, as evening approaches, it's time to think about coming back to shore, but then again, there's really no hurry about that. There's no hurry about a lot of things . . .
Didn't get enough sleep to do coding, so I'm switching #gamedev hats and started working on some art using #blender3d, just to see how long it will take me. Here's a #sailing ship, a carrack to be precise, made in about 2 hours.
Edit: any feedback is very welcome!
@thomastc It looks really good to me! One thing I'd try is make the wooden planks (in the texture) much longer - iirc that's how what are on actual ships
There comes a point when we can eat no more because our bodies simply must have time to digest what we have taken in.
So it is with knowledge, or what passes for knowledge, or facts, or "news," -- there comes a point when we must stop ingesting and take time to review and ponder over, analyze and question, think upon and contemplate what we have taken in.