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The Sun in August- At Latitude 41.?

August 05, 2022

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A STAR in MIAMI

January 25, 2020

Betelgeuse Bulb Keels sailing Star Sailboat

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FINALLY, a DECENT HEAT WAVE

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MIAMI RIVER MANEUVERING SKILLS

February 08, 2018

drawbridge M.V. Aniek Maneuvering Skills Miami River Tug-boat

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Gale Watch

November 25, 2017

Gale Warning Gale Watch Narragansett Bay

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Bigger Isn't Always Better

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Crossing the State Line

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Cold Gray Day Sailing

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A Heat Wave and other Peculiarities

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The 20/20 Rule

February 21, 2017

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Dingies-Eye-View January 22, 2017

January 22, 2017

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Winter Solstice High Noon 2016

December 22, 2016

sun at high noon winter solstice

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Dinghies-Eye-View December 7, 2016

December 07, 2016

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Winter Solstice High Noon 2016

For some time now, I've wanted to capture a photo of the sun at high noon on the winter solstice. And so, here it is, a photo of the sun at high noon on the winter solstice, December 21, 2016. According to my handheld GPS, the latitude is North 41 degrees 29.3 minutes. Winter Solstice sun at high noon, photo taken on December 21, 2016. Photo by Captain Bill Podzon. Sailing HIther and Thither. Fair Winds Captain Bill

Fresh Guano on Fresh Varnish

What's up with these birds? Often I think the act is a manifestation of another force unexplained by science or religion. Truth be told, it was not fresh varnish this time. No, this time it was a newly patched inflatable dinghy. I even gave the thing a scrub job, the bottom of it anyway. Goodbye barnacles, goodbye krill, goodbye phytoplankton? Goodbye zooplankton? I'm still lamely attempting to learn what those little things are. And then there's the nearly impossible green growth around the waterline. Well, my standard modus operandi in the dinghy world is keep it looking ghetto. That way it's much less apt to get ripped off and some winged creature acting as a medium for the forces that run the universe came by and made certain the ghetto floating riff-raff image was kept. A few years ago I mixed myself a nice martini one lovely summer afternoon. That was back in the days when I was a marina baby (an Australian term I was told by a guy I met on the bus wh

The Light of Rhode Island Sound and Other Wonders

It has to be that perspective when viewing from sailing out of Narragansett Bays East Passage. Maybe that is it. The southern light. An inspiritor. An inspiration similar to the glowing phosphorescence of night at sea. The sound of an hurdy gurdy comes to mind, an hurdy gurdy and a didgeridoo. Such are some of the thoughts and afterthoughts from a day sail aboard my Albin Vega 27 Freya on November 18, 2015. A sailboat that looks like a Volvo Ocean 40 (I'm guessing) sails into Newport Harbor. Photo by Captain Bill Podzon. Sailing Hither and Thither. The VHF radio was pleasantly silent. A tug pulling a barge announced over channels 16 and 13 that it was inbound passing Point Judith on route to Providence. At one point someone keyed in their microphone without saying anything. Aside from those two instances there was silence on the radio. The US Coast Guard Cutter Reliance (number 615) underway and making way outbound through Narragansett Bays East Passa

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