Summer is coming
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Do I Know Nothing Anymore in My Fifties Closing?
I decided to write about few things that I know a little, just for clearing my head and the air, putting hard questions on paper in hope of some answers to appear. Maybe some solutions and final truths will clear out some day. In general, I think, a good reason to write is to tell…
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Equality Is So Relative
I was once on Christmas Eve in Fuerteventura in the parking lot of an all-inclusive hotel talking to Klaus, an old German fellow who lived there. We wished everyone a Merry Christmas, drank beer together and laughed sarcastically with him about the fact that he was just him, Klaus, whom most of the hotel guests…
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The Rotten Bottom
The wooden oak keel, stern and lowest mahogany planks have gotten too soft anf cracked in 75 years.
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The Deck Is Gone
The discovery of rotted deck supports after removing the old teak deck, hundreds of brass screws, mahogany toe-boards, sideboards and the layer beneath the “hardwood” that would be better used only for indoor furniture.
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Something Interesting in the Seas
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Philippe Guillaume Merienkeli (Squatina squatina) the angelshark or monkfish, is a species of shark in the family Squatinidae known also as angel sharks. The angelshark is generally not aggressive towards humans, though it can deliver a severe bite if disturbed. Angelsharks were once widespread in the coastal waters of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Angelshark numbers have declined precipitously across most…