Harbour lights shimmering tonight
I had dinner on Sterns Warf tonight. The lights from the buoys and city were pretty on how they reflected off the harbour water. This animated gif was created with a Samsung S7. Pity that it had to be converted to a mp4 for Instagram or Facebook.
This blog post has a good discussion on how to convert animated gifs for posting on Instagram or Facebook
This is the original gif.
Anacapa Island Race
Friday, I got a last-minute call at noon to see if I wanted to sail the Anacapa Island race aka Tri-Point Ocean Race. I was lucky to get on a fast boat with a good crew. Even though my job was to be rail meat, it was very cathartic after the week I had. We had fair wind for most of the race except for the round of the island. The lee of the Island was shifty and dead for the most part. It felt like it took just as much time to round the island as it did to make the channel crossing. All and all, it definitely was a good day.
Summer Rain and Rainbow
Got caught in the rain with rainbows afterward. It is not every July in Santa Barbara does that happen.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWU8hGeFyJH/https://www.instagram.com/p/BWVABR8lUMv/J/70 Escape in 20 Knots
A cool video that was created by Haul Parteck During SBYC Summer Series One Design. We actually had 30 gusts at one time!
J/70 Boat Handling with Tim Healy
Three good videos for J/70 handling. Section 3 - Tack and Gybe is put first since it is basic sailing of the boat.
Section 3 - Tack and Gybe
Step by step video on how to tack and gybe the J/70
Section 1 - Spinnaker Set Up
Step by step video on how to set up the J/70 spinnaker
Section 2 - Spinnaker Take Down
Step by step video on how to take down the J/70 spinnaker
You Found Me
So you found me. This URL, I had purchased for my personal blog. Pretty empty for blogging for so many years. All I can say this is not bad. Especially when the current robot.txt file looks like:
I will be updating sometime in the future. Please do not link to anything yet. I am in the process of revamping. I can say this if I spent as much time writing as revamping, what a site!
I am off to go sailing. Later.
Instagram Test
BW of my boat Escape. Post splash.
Just want to see the difference between self hosting and hot linking.
Using the mediea rst tag
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPiSF0_D4Ja/Using Embeding with raw restrucutred text
A non-instagram picture:
And lastly a thumbnail
My j70 is on its way
The boat is on its way! Should be here Monday.
A google earth view of the builder of my boat.
A map of the possible route that my boat will take getting here.