Several years ago I saw a series of MRIs taken of people playing a video game for the first time. Their brains were lit up. The MRIs showed activity across many regions of their brains. Later, their brains were re-imaged after they had played the game multiple times. Their brains were no longer lit upContinue reading “Always Learning”
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The Kindness of Strangers
I have written a fair bit about our current refit on Cambria–all the jobs we’ve been doing. One thing I have neglected to mention is how helpful people have been. In these days of negative online communities, twitter rampages and deep fakes, several times I have been encouraged by how helpful real people can be.Continue reading “The Kindness of Strangers”
Cruising During Covid
Our home province of British Columbia has just finished its strictest restrictions so far in the fight to get Covid-19 under control. In many ways it hasn’t affected us much. The rules don’t allow for restaurants to have inside dining. Bars are closed. Travel is limited to essential travel only and only within one’s healthContinue reading “Cruising During Covid”
One Thing Led to Another
Boat projects have a habit of taking on a life of their own. Cambria is 20+ years old. That’s 20+ years of wear and tear in a harsh environment. That’s 20+ years of many people fixing things or making improvements. It means that a big part of any project is figuring out how the lastContinue reading “One Thing Led to Another”
More Haul Out
Here’s a quick video of our recent haul out. Brighter Days by Markvard & Kvarmez https://soundcloud.com/markvard https://soundcloud.com/simen-eliassen… Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/brighter-days Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/jVEoeR9AunY
Haul Out
We have just completed our bi-annual haul out. For those that are not familiar with this process, every year or two–depending where you live–boats need to be hauled out of the water, inspected for unusual wear and tear, painted and then returned to the water. It’s strenuous messy work but it’s necessary. We had fiveContinue reading “Haul Out”
Vancouver Get Away
We put our to-do list on hold and got away from the dock for a few days. We have been wanting to get over to Vancouver for months–partially to do some work on the boat and partly to see our kids (while following all COVID protocols.) We planned to be there for a week. OurContinue reading “Vancouver Get Away”
Ticked Off
It’s an exciting time! We are experiencing some beautiful spring weather, sailing conditions are great and we have most of the major jobs on our to-do list completed. There are still millions of things to do but the major items are almost complete. I’ll paste the list at the end of this post but theContinue reading “Ticked Off”
Weather: How We Use It and How We Get It
Here in Canada, we talk about the weather. It’s what we talk about when we have nothing else to talk about. Then again we have weather to talkabout. We get snow, hail, rain, sleet, sunshine. Sometimes we get it allin the same day! Talking about the weather gives us something to saywhen we don’t knowContinue reading “Weather: How We Use It and How We Get It”
Progress Update
April 10th Update: We’re making progress! There are still lots of little things to do but many of the big projects are done or nearly done. I’ve updated the projects list below by checking some things off. The recently completed items are in blue. I recently heard cruising described as working on your boat inContinue reading “Progress Update”
Cormacks On Cambria 