Here is a special announcement, for subscribers to my blog. I wanted all of you to hear it first. It has taken some time to…
“Falling” Format News
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Pre-Orders Rising for “Falling”
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Hello all, Thanks to all of you that have already pre-ordered my new book Falling. It is about lessons learned aloft, and it publishes on the 7th…
“Falling” Is Almost Here
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Hello, The blog has been on hiatus, but I have been busy preparing a little E-Book for publication. It is called “Falling,” and it is…
Weird Wire Puzzle: the Answer
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Last week’s rigging puzzle was about breaking stuff. Here is how it went: The manufacturers of a new type of wire rope terminal conducted…
The manufacturers of a new type of wire rope terminals conducted a destruction test. This test resulted in the sample of wire rope breaking at…
Rig Survey Part 1: Surveying the Design
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As surveyors, our work is based on the skills and knowledge of others, on lessons learned, often at great expense, given as a gift to…
The Canned Ham Incident, part 2
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When last we left our stalwart adventurers, the preacher with the ecumenical pirate ship had run aground at night off the coast of southern Florida,…
Puzzle Delay
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Hi all, Hi all, I have hit a serious computer snag, and won’t be able to post this week’s puzzle on time. You’ll see it…
Hello all, First I would like to congratulate everybody who wrote in with an answer. It takes courage to risk being wrong, which it turns…
Last week I told of a near-fall while aloft on a big square-rigger. This week’s story takes place some years later, aboard a contemporary sailboat. I…