I’ve seen video of a pair of bears absolutely running high up a tree. My eyes bugged out like a tromped-on toad’s. The one being chased managed to hold off the other one long enough that it got tired and went away with no real damage on either side.
And of course cats are known for climbing.
I will stick with the New Zealand Bush. No snakes, no large animals that have me down as a meal. It’s not perfect. The sand flies are pretty vicious in parts of the country and the mosquitos while not being a disease vector are ferocious.
I swear I recently saw that video on youtube.
EPISODE 6: 130 Miles to Rendezvous
The second day of the Oyster voyage takes the trainees from British Columbia’s Burdwood Islands to Bowers Island on Chatham Channel. The trainees put their theoretical knowledge of basic piloting to the test in a maze of channels and channels where tidal currents and wind can easily send them traveling backwards. As a reward they pass beautiful Lacey Falls.
Meanwhile, the Curlew with her crew of two professional mariners visits Octopus Island Marine Park.
May 2024.
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Here is a Coastal vessel that met with a glorious end:
She ended up as target for the U.S. Air Force when conducting QUICKSINK exercises at the Gulf Test Range in 2024:
Built in Sweden as MS Homborsund, 1956:
Amazing to see a vessel you walked on many a time sitting twisted on the bottom of the sea.
I saw the boat in 1984 when she was a US marshal sale called the Rodsand. I saw her in Magone shipyard in 1985 where she had an entirely new forebody fabricated. The break you see in the hull was pretty much where the new forebody began.
I remember visiting her in Dutch Harbor on her first Alaskan voyages for Sunmar in 1987 and inspecting her when CTI bought her many years later.
I looked through those wheelhouse windows. I worked in those now-mangled cargo holds, and know the layout of every compartment that fish now swim through.
Age takes us strange places…
Yes people and ships alike are taken to stranges places as we age.
(Some to stranger places than other)
I wonder what the Rodsand was used for in those years? Why was she on US marshal sale?
Drug runner busted in FL.
3:06 looks like just the sort of spot that a bear would show up.
Yes, I remember when you hired me as chief on the Sea. I also remember lifting the carpet in my stateroom and being able to see the engine room through a hole in the deck !
Many happy memories though sailing the inside passage and Aleutians and a great trip where we anchored near Craig waiting to load salmon.
Canada recently allowed foreign visitors to bring bear spray across the border with them.
Up until a few years ago we couldn’t bring any with us. And given the route into BC and the timetable of the voyage we couldn’t buy any as we headed north.
The skipper carried a flare pistol to dissuade bears. I can say from personal experience backpacking in the Aleutians that flares will warn off even brown bears. But there are no trees to set fire to on the tundra, whereas in BC it’s always an issue. So the bear spray is better.
Did they loose their way and ended up at Sunnmøre Museum, Ålesund, Norway?;
Why is the name in Greek letters?:
Theophilus – a Greek name. Friend of God.
That mast doesn’t appear to be stepped with wedges.
I don’t know as I didn’t go close enough to see.
PS> I have not been able to find out why this boat is at the museum, or whether it is a new exhibit, (or just a short term visitor from Greece)
Reverting if/when I know more.
Thanks, I was only noting a difference between “Oyster” and “Theophilus”.
Oyster is a Hampden Boat. Built from Howard Chapelle plans. A writer featured this article about the Oyster in WoodenBoat magazine.
Forgot to say that two of the books of the New Testament are addressed to Theophilus.
Episode 7: Rowing Through Surge Narrows
The trainees aboard Oyster thread their way through the back channels of British Columbia’s Inside Passage. They finally reach Surge Narrows, where a poor tidal prediction could wreck the boat.
Meanwhile, Curlew visits an old shelter filled with sculptures memorializing the other voyagers who have come this way.
May 2024.
During my service in the navy there were two boats that could be sailed or under oars, the Montague whaler and the cutter. The former was used as a seaboat ,single banked and when I was under training was launched in all weather up to about Force 6 with a crew of six. It weighed about 1.5 tonnes and was hoisted by hand very quickly after the midship hands had cleared the boat by climbing their lifeline (NO knots). The falls were released simultaneously by the Robertson disengaging gear to drop the boat on the crest of a wave while underway.
The cutter was a double banked boat with 10 men or boys with 5 oars each side. It weighed 2.5 tonnes and sailed well in a gale.
I well remember 14 of us covering 36 miles under oars in a day. I could just about tie my shoelaces without bending down.
I could not find a single photo of a cutter or a whaler under oars on the net.
