tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30829516.post2622793162931421865..comments2024-03-27T03:03:44.660-04:00Comments on Vleeptron_Z: Super Typhoon Wipha misses Shanghai / Weather Porn / Climate Porn / Tropical CyclonesVleeptron Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01913822255924924435noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30829516.post-24285236813845696642011-11-01T04:43:34.375-04:002011-11-01T04:43:34.375-04:00I found a great deal of helpful info here!I found a great deal of helpful info here!www.empresas3d.comhttp://www.empresas3d.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30829516.post-71088774191487559582007-09-20T17:46:00.000-04:002007-09-20T17:46:00.000-04:00No worries. You gave your friends the one I gave ...No worries. You gave your friends the one I gave you...thats they way of good gifts...they have mileage. I would like to borry my sextant back some time; Darrick's never seen one and he likes geeky stuph like that.James J. Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18347526276770576843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30829516.post-57286829055836215992007-09-20T10:12:00.000-04:002007-09-20T10:12:00.000-04:00Uh-oh, you want it back? Since I stumbled on Bowdi...Uh-oh, you want it back? Since I stumbled on Bowditch in the 1970s, I've never been without one, but I gave one away to some pals who owned a boat in the Florida Keys and ... uhhh ... well, they weren't very bright about matters nautical, so I gave them my Bowditch the same way you'd give a child a life preserver. (The last I heard, they were still alive.)<BR/><BR/>This is a 1962 edition signed by G.B. Eldred. So it's either yours or it leaped out at me in a used book store.<BR/><BR/>Bowditch used to have a chapter on submarine navigation, but it's gone now. I'm hoping they'll put in a chapter about astrogation / navigating through space, if they haven't already.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, check out the only two tropical cyclones in the South Atlantic from 1985-2005, both hitting the Buenos Aires - Montevideo coast. What up with them? They must have caught a lot of local mariners totally unprepared.<BR/><BR/>I got smacked in the face by a hurricane when i was in the army -- bachelor living in a barracks with just a locker's worth of stuff -- so under those circumstances, Hurricane Celia was quite a remarkable week of entertainment. She (this was when they were all named for females) killed just two people in Corpus Christi -- one man trying to secure glass doors which shattered, and then a woman who believed Judgment had come and swallowed iodine. Oh, and of course some teenage surfers. In the Atlantic and the Gulf, local surfers always grab their boards and race for the shore, because only a hurricane brings them really gnarly (?) waves. Kowabunga!Vleeptron Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01913822255924924435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30829516.post-56939758193117158352007-09-19T22:07:00.000-04:002007-09-19T22:07:00.000-04:00Did I give you my copy of Bowditch with my sextant...Did I give you my copy of Bowditch with my sextant?James J. Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18347526276770576843noreply@blogger.com