Blog readers, check this out!
Roy
Hi Roy,
You may be interested in this from Ian Allen,
with some stuff from DD on the North West Passage and Ice, it seems to put paid
to the global warming theory being caused by us?
Notty in Hout Bay about two years back instructing his grandson on the art of steering by compass. We had an ice free day too!
I read this very interesting article sent to me by yacht
designing mate Dudley Dix and then perused some of the gorgeously
eccentric little boats busy trying to find a way round. I shall spend more time
on that particular site tomorrow, since it is pretty extensive but full of
interesting goodies. Scott Cowper is still at it I see. I met him in 1984 in
the Caribbean and he seemed such a nice, quiet and unassuming bloke going
around the world in a lifeboat with a Gardner diesel in it. This is all very
different. We also had a Kiwi bloke stay with us who had sailed to the
Arctic and previously also Antarctica on a steel British yacht and written a
book about it called 'Poles apart in Northanger' - a wonderful title.
But this just shows you that the most assertive and gloomy
recent predictions by guys like Paul Beckwith of The Sierra Club in Canada
couldn't possibly have been more wrong. Our efforts to get nature sussed often
seem so futile and she does what she does whilst flashing us the finger at
times.
Cheers,
Ian
Ian and Paula Allen ian.allen@xtra.co.nz
The Gables info@thegables.co.nz
Web Site www.thegables.co.nz
Tel / Fax 64 3 5736772
The Gables info@thegables.co.nz
Web Site www.thegables.co.nz
Tel / Fax 64 3 5736772
Hi Ian,
The weather gurus
forecast this hurricane to be worse than average. Thus far it is way below
normal, with no hurricanes and only 6 tropical storms. Our summer has been
pretty cool, with only a few days above average and most below average. This
morning our lake was steaming, which doesn't normally happen until into autumn.
