OAR NorthwestWeek 1: Module1: 2/1/13 What time is it where you are, and what time zone are you in? How about where the JRH is? How do you know when you enter a new time zone if there isn’t a handy sign on the side of the road telling you? Simple I just look at my […]
A six inch white and silver sliver rockets out of the water. A bird? No, not with those incandescent wings…insect like. It glides over the rollicking waves, unperturbed at the irregularity of the watery medium it has escaped. The flying fish is my new favorite creature. I have known about them for as long as I […]
Week 1: Module 1: Date 1/31/13 How does one exactly row an ocean rowboat? I mean you just stick the oar in the water and push, right? or is it pull? Why am I facing backward? Help! I can’t see where I am going!!
Our big 1500kg rowboat dances. Not so much in the beam seas we have been experiencing, but a few of the right waves came our way today. Aft (from directly behind) is perfect, but even at 65 and seventy degrees from aft can start the rhythm. The swell rises and we slide down the face, […]
Week 1: Module1: 1/30/13 Yesterday we heard from the crew about some big swells so what happens if the JRH flips over, or capsizes as it is referred to in the nautical world? Does it look like this? Thanks to some really cool innovations it does not! In fact the JRH is self-righting! Self-righting what does that […]