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Here's a diagram I'm collaborating on because I'm about to teach a few people how to sail:

Personal Lessons Learned from the Southern Straits 2010 Sailing Race

I was very excited to be invited along for the 2010 edition of the Southern Straits sailing race this year. It would be my first time crewing for a boat in this race, and I was anxious to chase away some demons left over from my vomitous performance at the prior year's Swiftsure long course, on Stewart Richardson's Siam Princess.

My opportunity to go was granted thanks to Edward Karadontis. His boat, Dusty Mauch, is a well cared for Peterson 25 he keeps at WVYC.

The Weather Briefing to Beat All Weather Briefings

One of the strongest memories I'll take away from this experience was the very professional weather briefing given by Dave Jones (ahem!, yes that is his real name) from Environment Canada. His demeanor and professionalism was very much appreciated, and the organizers of Southern Straits are to be commended for having him come out to inform us all. The video posted by Astral Plane has a nice clip of part of that briefing that is well worth watching.

Every now and again I happen across a web page that holds it all together for me.

Here is one such page, and those of you who know me will know all the reasons why.

My favorite quote: "... I also made a couple of boats for myself to validate the software."

p.s. Can anyone help this man, his well intentioned wiki has resulted in a lot of spammers linking in his discussion pages?