Note just in from Lynne Thompson, M/V North Star, 49 Classic GB: “I have set up a Grand Banks Owners group on Facebook. If you would post this on the PSGBOA site I would appreciate it. Just Google Facebook, then do a search for Grand Banks Owners.” So there you are. Lynne sees this as an opportunity to meet another GBer. “I now know a couple in Ontario who own a GB, their friend who bought a GB, and someone new from Europe that I haven’t connected with yet.” Facebook has a great (very simple!) way to post photos and movies, in addition to messages about trips and destinations (of course, we do too!). Lynne has posted some things she found on the internet regarding GBs– for example, a news piece (great little video…in Italian!) on the GB factory in Singapore and Bob Lane’s Passagemaker Blog. Oh, and there’s also a link to gbbeacon.com where you can find more blogs by GB owners! So now, friends, go to it!
LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY… (1/09)
…Whether you need to or not! We’re not sure you really need to know this in particular– but what the heck, it might just help you score points at the next cocktail reception. Especially if someone asks you what you’re drinking, and you say just your daily ration of rum… CLICK HERE! (PS: That’s Nelson’s flagship, the H.M.S. Victory…now standing by at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was– and for the most part, still is!– outfitted with 90 “Great Guns”…and the necessary cannon balls.) Continue reading
BE NICE TO YOUR COOLER…! (1/09)
It’s a frightening story. And listen, you never know when your cooler and/or some passing birds may be the most critical elements of your life! It seems that these two very desperate, very dehydrated young men were found bobbing in a bathtub-sized cooler off Australia after spending 25 days adrift. They had been aboard a 30-foot wooden fishing boat that sank Dec. 23 with a crew of 20 from Thailand and Myanmar. There was no sign of 18 other crew members. ” (Wait just a minute…20 men on a thirty foot boat out fishing 200 miles off-shore in the middle of the ocean? Any of you GB 32′ owners have any thoughts about that? We say “don’t go that way!”) Continue reading
ONBOARD FITNESS AT SEATTLE BOAT SHOW (12/08)
Hey, remember these guys? If you missed their great presentation at our Rendezvous last spring, you can catch Myles and Lisa Magnuson of Onboard Fitness at the upcoming Seattle Boat Show. They are set to speak on Sunday January 25th at 3:15pm and Saturday January 31st at 12:15pm. Their seminar covers all bases from why it is important to keep in shape for boating to how to take your exercise regime with you on board your boat. They’ll have some of their workout equipment on hand to demonstrate (and sell), so plan to get out of your chair and try it out! You’ll get a lot of information about them and their programs (some great short videos!) by visiting their website at onboardfitness.com.
CLEANUP TIME! (11/08)
If you want to see what the bottom of the Hiram M. Chittenden locks looks like…get over there before December 6th! The Army Corps Of Engineers has the big one drained for cleaning and maintenance. And if you lost anything– pop can, cell phone, diamond ring– while going through any time this year, get in line. This is when they pick all that stuff up!
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VOLCANO BELOW! (11/08)
Okeanos Explorer, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship commissioned in August, just returned to Seattle’s Pier 66 after its trial run off Washington’s coast. The crew didn’t expect to find underwater volcanoes out there, maps from previous missions showed only a bump on the seafloor about 200 miles west of Grays Harbor. But sure enough, the contours of a large volcano emerged as sonar mapped the ocean floor more than 10,000 feet below the surface. Hey, just one more thing to watch out for!
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AND A BLACK DOG WILL LEAD THEM…TO WHALE POOP! (11/08)
Here’s an important follow-up to our recent Orca story posting. Seems that Tucker the dog is trained to track the scent of orca poop. How, or why…who knows! (Come on, how would you teach a dog to do that!) But University of Washington researchers now use him to help them find and gather these scat samples which, in turn, tell them that the animals aren’t getting enough to eat. Here’s the story…from Seattle Times. Somebody– give that dog a bone! Continue reading