Girl with patreon account goes sailing in hot place

[low bum]

I would offer the opinion - and I know I'm going out on a limb here - that William and Kate visiting Boston has absolutely zero to do with the American Revolution. Many modern countries have monarchies and world keeps on spinning. Or is it also frightfully funny and tragic that there are kings in both Sweden and Norway? How much hate would there be for one of them if he visited Boston? Charles is a perfect twit but his oldest son seems like a fine man with a splendid family, born into a system he has no control over but is doing his best to honor and live up to. If Britain wants to do away with the monarchy it has the tools to do so I assume. But I'm not holding my breath.

You ten-cent, hair shirt socialists need to get a life, or find a less bourgeois forum to flex your proletarian muscles on than one dedicated to (dear God, help me...of all things...) recreational sailing. Perhaps collecting Faberge eggs is more useless and elitist than sailing, but I rather doubt it.

 

[accnick]

I would offer the opinion - and I know I'm going out on a limb here - that William and Kate visiting Boston has absolutely zero to do with the American Revolution. Many modern countries have monarchies and world keeps on spinning. Or is it also frightfully funny and tragic that there are kings in both Sweden and Norway? How much hate would there be for one of them if he visited Boston? Charles is a perfect twit but his oldest son seems like a fine man with a splendid family, born into a system he has no control over but is doing his best to honor and live up to. If Britain wants to do away with the monarchy it has the tools to do so I assume. But I'm not holding my breath.

You ten-cent, hair shirt socialists need to get a life, or find a less bourgeois forum to flex your proletarian muscles on than one dedicated to (dear God, help me...of all things...) recreational sailing. Perhaps collecting Faberge eggs is more useless and elitist than sailing, but I rather doubt it.

Your irony detector isn't working very well today.

 

[mckenzie.keith]

I would offer the opinion - and I know I'm going out on a limb here - that William and Kate visiting Boston has absolutely zero to do with the American Revolution. Many modern countries have monarchies and world keeps on spinning. Or is it also frightfully funny and tragic that there are kings in both Sweden and Norway? How much hate would there be for one of them if he visited Boston? Charles is a perfect twit but his oldest son seems like a fine man with a splendid family, born into a system he has no control over but is doing his best to honor and live up to. If Britain wants to do away with the monarchy it has the tools to do so I assume. But I'm not holding my breath.

You ten-cent, hair shirt socialists need to get a life, or find a less bourgeois forum to flex your proletarian muscles on than one dedicated to (dear God, help me...of all things...) recreational sailing. Perhaps collecting Faberge eggs is more useless and elitist than sailing, but I rather doubt it.

Boston is a very Irish town. The Irish, as a rule, tend to have some residual resentment for past wrongs at the hands of the British Crown. Forget about the Boston tea party. San Francisco and Boston were (supposedly) the two towns who sent the most money to the IRA back in the day. I am not super familiar with Boston but i grew up in San Francisco.

 

[Finknottle]

On a different tack, I think both Kate Middleton and her husband are into sailing. Here she is in a fun race:






And as reported in the media:

" Kate, 40, learned to sail as a child and the sport is one of her passions, although to her chagrin she has found herself losing to her husband Prince William on more than one occasion in yacht races between the pair.

“She’s a very good sailor in her own right,” Sir Ben said, pointing out she had sailed with him on foiling boats before and had also sailed across the Atlantic."

 

[Kris Cringle]

I would offer the opinion - and I know I'm going out on a limb here - that William and Kate visiting Boston has absolutely zero to do with the American Revolution. Many modern countries have monarchies and world keeps on spinning. Or is it also frightfully funny and tragic that there are kings in both Sweden and Norway? How much hate would there be for one of them if he visited Boston? Charles is a perfect twit but his oldest son seems like a fine man with a splendid family, born into a system he has no control over but is doing his best to honor and live up to. If Britain wants to do away with the monarchy it has the tools to do so I assume. But I'm not holding my breath.

You ten-cent, hair shirt socialists need to get a life, or find a less bourgeois forum to flex your proletarian muscles on than one dedicated to (dear God, help me...of all things...) recreational sailing. Perhaps collecting Faberge eggs is more useless and elitist than sailing, but I rather doubt it.

I'm just having some fun with a current global subject, and did insert an emoji or two. The world is an interesting place right now and UK's current politics and culture are particularly interesting these days.

How can you know I'm a 'ten cent hair shirt socialist' by my interest in UK stuff?

 

[CapDave]

The Societies have occasionally had a cyclone, rest of FP is pretty safe, last serious ones were in the early 1980s. There are certainly some who stick around the Societies sailing the summer away, but only a few. There are several options for haulout and land storage, but all were fully booked for cyclone season when I was looking this past season. Those islands are all pretty close to each other and so it is only a day's sailing to get from one to another of the five main ones to look for shelter, but cyclone force winds howling around those hills would be scary, just hanging on a mooring or worse my anchor in a maramu in Borabora was pretty hectic, dragging anchor twice in gusts coming off the hills. In the Tuamotus there is a haulout facility on one of the atolls, called Apataki, where lots of folks leave their boats for the cyclone season and as far as I know it has never been hit. One guy I met and got to know reasonably well had kept his boat there for a decade, sailing the Tuamotus each winter season for six months, what a life! I don't believe the Marquesas have ever had a cyclone pass through.

I have studied this topic a bit, as when I eventually go to the South Pacific I don't want to rush through. For the curious, I'm attaching two somewhat overlapping documents which are a good introduction, and here is a link to one more that is very useful:

Cyclones in French Polynesia - Blue Water Sailing

When compared to other tropical cruising paradises, French Polynesia is the least likely to suffer hurricanes or cyclones (published March 2018) After the devastating 2017 hurricane […]

www.bwsailing.com

Here also is a link to guidance on hauling out in Apataki, not possible for my boat size in any case:

Cyclone season strategies in French Polynesia: hauling out at Apataki Carenage in the Tuamotus Archipelago

The Cyclone season in French Polynesia runs during the Austral summer, November through April. Every year more and more boats choose to spend more than one season in French Polynesia, enjoying some…

svbellamarina.com

ENSO status and trend is the key driver of tactics.

 

[CapDave]

I would stay in the Tuamotus, but be aware that in December and January you can get strong northerlies there, which can catch people on lee shores inside the atolls as the vast majority of protected anchorages in the winter are in the south and east of each atoll to avoid the SE trades. So you have to be willing to move to the north side of an atoll, and those seldom have the easiest of anchorages, because the sandy anchorages are on the south and east sides where sand has been collecting for millenia, washed over from the fringing reef by waves driven by the SE trades. Just as an example, the SE corner of Fakarava is a motu called Hirifa, and it is a wonderful place to hang out, isolated enough to have no village or shops, but with water collected onshore and cell service from the nearby South Pass. But you would not want to be there in a northerly as the swell would build enormously given the huge fetch of this large atoll. There is a hulk of a steel sailboat on the shore at the South Pass anchorage in testament to this vulnerability. Fakarava is the safest of all atolls otherwise, as you could anchor safely at the north shore and be within reach of the village of Rotoava on the NE corner with all its supplies, but you need to get up there before a northerly hits, and it takes a day to get from south to north, with a following wind, not a headwind.

If you leave aside the increased risk for cyclones, I really enjoyed the Society islands. I only got to visit four atolls, Makemo, Tahanea, Fakarava, and Taou. I managed easily to visit all of the Society islands, including tiny Tetiaroa on the east side, and Maupiti and Maupihaa on the west. But just playing around the five main islands could take a summer of fun. The passes, unlike in the Tuamotus, are easy, each island has considerable infrastucture making it easy to get by, but also lots of isolated anchorages to get away from it all. And of course much more to do on land as the tuamotus are pretty limited, one motu is not much different from another, and one fringing reef is not much different from another. You just have to get into a relaxed state in the Tuamotus, enjoy the beauty, kitesurfing, snorkeling (in the lagoons, drifting through the passes, and even outside the passes, e.g. at the closed pass on Taou), spearfishing (check with locals about which fish do not have ciguatera), scuba diving if you have money to spare or gear on board (generally drifting the passes or going outside the reef). I spent a month in Fakarava alone, some people spend the whole winter there. Holly spent two years in the Tuamotus.

Rangiroa has at least two good anchorages on the North side

 

[TwoLegged]

Charles is a perfect twit but his oldest son seems like a fine man with a splendid family, born into a system he has no control over but is doing his best to honor and live up to

William is less of a twit than his da, but that's not a high bar. He doesn't talk to plants and didn't select a brood mare to be his wife while playing away from home ... but apart from that he's just another inbred with limited life experience and low insight who married a smiling clothes horse. The only remotely interesting thing about him is the Prince of Pegging rumours, which creates lots of sniggering.

 

[accnick]

On a different tack, I think both Kate Middleton and her husband are into sailing. Here she is in a fun race:






And as reported in the media:

" Kate, 40, learned to sail as a child and the sport is one of her passions, although to her chagrin she has found herself losing to her husband Prince William on more than one occasion in yacht races between the pair.

“She’s a very good sailor in her own right,” Sir Ben said, pointing out she had sailed with him on foiling boats before and had also sailed across the Atlantic."

That's Sir Ben lurking over her right shoulder, saying "don't break the boat, that's my job..."

 

[MauiPunter]

The only hair shirt I own is the one God gave me. lol.

 

[Elegua]

I would offer the opinion - and I know I'm going out on a limb here - that William and Kate visiting Boston has absolutely zero to do with the American Revolution. Many modern countries have monarchies and world keeps on spinning. Or is it also frightfully funny and tragic that there are kings in both Sweden and Norway? How much hate would there be for one of them if he visited Boston? Charles is a perfect twit but his oldest son seems like a fine man with a splendid family, born into a system he has no control over but is doing his best to honor and live up to. If Britain wants to do away with the monarchy it has the tools to do so I assume. But I'm not holding my breath.

You ten-cent, hair shirt socialists need to get a life, or find a less bourgeois forum to flex your proletarian muscles on than one dedicated to (dear God, help me...of all things...) recreational sailing. Perhaps collecting Faberge eggs is more useless and elitist than sailing, but I rather doubt it.

If you ever go to the Russian armory, I did so when it was still under Soviet management, you are treated to such over the top jewels that by the time you get tot he couple faberge eggs still in Moscow you’re like - “ hey look at that ‘lil egg”.

Charles may be unlikeable, but he got on that organic farm-to-table crap before most people knew what that was. Quite the trend setter. Helps of course if you’ve got your own gentleman farmer set up to start with.

 

[TheDragon]

Munz and Capt Dave,

For me the goto information source for FP and beyond was and still is the various compendia put together by Soggy Paws - http://svsoggypaws.com/files/. It is simply amazing the effort they have made putting together the reports from diverse cruisers. They even have some of them updated to late 2022, like the Fiji one, which was extremely useful to me. They can be repetitive, and reading it all beforehand gets a little tedious, but when you are about to go to a new atoll or island it is extremely helpful. Just make sure you have it downloaded to multiple devises as electronics tend to crap out on you on a boat.

There is now also a more modern attempt at this that some might know about, called Navily, an app on phones and pads. I found it sortof useful, although it has features that have to be taken with a little salt. For example, they suggest levels of shelter for anchorages using general weather models, which cannot know that an anchorage is behind an island or reef hence no swell, etc. Anyway, I tried to contribute to it by reporting on most anchorages I used on my trip this past season.

The other very useful thing is to have decent satellite views, especially for avoiding coral bommies in the atolls, but also for anchorages. Unfortunately I don't have my Android phone with me, but there is an app on Android that allows you to download satellite images beforehand to use offline with zoom ability that most cruisers use, sadly not on iPhone. Otherwise I found myself taking screenshots of anchorages etc on my iPad for use later, but you obviously cannot zoom into those. For example, there is almost no cell service in the Lau Group on the east of Fiji, so having downloaded satellite views of each island you might visit is super useful. Folks on fancy boats had all of this integrated with their chart plotters, which is beyond me. Also, Navionics had a lot more detail for most places than iSailor which I used, but mostly you figure out the details when you get there.

 

[robtoujours]

William is less of a twit than his da, but that's not a high bar. He doesn't talk to plants and didn't select a brood mare to be his wife while playing away from home ... but apart from that he's just another inbred with limited life experience and low insight who married a smiling clothes horse. The only remotely interesting thing about him is the Prince of Pegging rumours, which creates lots of sniggering.

Diana was BPD

Guardian approved opinions are boring

 

[robtoujours]

Back to sailing in the Pacific and the mentally ill;

Vanished in the Pacific

Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. They found a different fate.

www.nytimes.com

Didn't see it posted here yet, I refuse to look at CA or PA on principle.

"Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. They found a different fate."

The account from "Captain Schmidt" about the MOBs is obvious BS.

Nautical chart of Wallis Island here for those interested:

Object | South Pacific Ocean : Wallis Islands-Ile Uea : Mua and Mata Utu Anchorages | Library Digital Collections | UC San Diego Library | Zoom

library.ucsd.edu

The passage where they allegedly went MOB was the south one.

The internet is like crack to histrionic or schizoaffective young people, who get triggered by narcissists straight into full blown psychosis. Sad.

The Chinese have the right idea, ban social media to youngsters and tightly control everything. Eventually we will view commercially run social media as advisable as doctors paid to promote cigarettes or car companies bribing politicians to rip up the train network.

 

[Kris Cringle]

If you ever go to the Russian armory, I did so when it was still under Soviet management, you are treated to such over the top jewels that by the time you get tot he couple faberge eggs still in Moscow you’re like - “ hey look at that ‘lil egg”.

Charles may be unlikeable, but he got on that organic farm-to-table crap before most people knew what that was. Quite the trend setter. Helps of course if you’ve got your own gentleman farmer set up to start with.

For the few people raised in a closed world of such spectacular privilege, Charles could have turned out worse. I have hope for him, he has some power now.

It's all living history to me. Growing up, I've watched a countless stream of presidents meeting prime ministers.

The one commonality was that woman with the crown in nearly all the meetings. Authoritarianism is back on the world table, sadly.

There's a lot to watch out there right now in the world. Even this - mostly for show monarchy - is important.

 

[robtoujours]

Back to sailing in the Pacific and the mentally ill;

Vanished in the Pacific

Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. They found a different fate.

www.nytimes.com

Didn't see it posted here yet, I refuse to look at CA or PA on principle.

"Driven by Covid chaos, online disinformation and a YouTube guru, two Americans went looking for solace on a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. They found a different fate."

The account from "Captain Schmidt" about the MOBs is obvious BS.

Nautical chart of Wallis Island here for those interested:

Object | South Pacific Ocean : Wallis Islands-Ile Uea : Mua and Mata Utu Anchorages | Library Digital Collections | UC San Diego Library | Zoom

library.ucsd.edu

The passage where they allegedly went MOB was the south one.

The internet is like crack to histrionic or schizoaffective young people, who get triggered by narcissists straight into full blown psychosis. Sad.

The Chinese have the right idea, ban social media to youngsters and tightly control everything. Eventually we will view commercially run social media as advisable as doctors paid to promote cigarettes or car companies bribing politicians to rip up the train network.

Some detail not found in the NYT article:

www.findisaac.org

"Friday 27/11/2020 Zulu Time arrived in Wallis and Futuna and used the GPS to send an email announcing their arrival. Officers Major Lionel Boulet and Jean-Michel Martin are informed of the Zulu Times arrival in front of Honikulu pass, south of Wallis. The two officers and customs officer Loicc Tuivai (brought in to translate) use a speedboat to meet with the Zulu Time. The officers noted the presence of three men. The fact that these men are officials provided us with enough evidence to know Isaac made it this far. It eliminated the possibility that the Cook Island plan was carried out.

The officers specified to the captain that they cannot disembark on the territory until after Covid tests are done. The officers showed them the route to enter the pass and asked them to follow. During this attempt the vessel had difficulty maneuvering across the pass and had to give up entering the lagoon. The officers told the captain they will contact a civilian who can tow them in.

Later on that day (4:10 PM) Lurent Mercier arrives and offers to tow them for about $260-$350 USD. Captain Mike declined this offer and decided to wait until the next day to try and return by his own means.

Saturday 11/28/2020

12:11 PM the sailboat Zulu Time signaled by email that they entered the lagoon by Honikullu fairway.

12:17 PM Captain Mike announced by email that his two passengers jumped overboard, after having cut the radios so that he could not alert authorities. He told them the reason for their escape was the refusal to take Covid tests.

2:00 PM searches begin.

A report from an off duty gendarme and a policeman state at 1:30 PM they received a call from the Commanding Officer of the gendarme of Wallis & Futuna that triggered a sea rescue operation in relation to the Zulu Time. They state that they sailed towards la Passe around 2:00 PM and at 2:30 PM were in the area and started to search around the islets of la Pasee and les Lepreux.

According to them, this time of day the tide is just starting to rise, the current is strong and the wind blows towards west/northwest.

The men boarded the ship and took pictures at 2:52 PM of the Garmin GPS screen, on which the coordinates of where the two people supposedly jumped are displayed. The GPS pinpoints the location 400 meters NE of the Ilot de la Passe and 400 meters south of the ilot des Lepreux.

Since the winds and current pushed east towards the Faioa islet, the entire reef between the fairway and FAIOA was searched, as well as the main channel. They landed on Ilot de la Passe where people from ADSUP confirmed having seen the sailboat passing by. Mr. Rover Frederic confirmed having seen two men on the sailboat as it passed. However, nobody saw anything in relation to two men jumping overboard. They did not see people reaching the Ilot de la Passe swimming either.

The search continued and at 5:00 PM they were ordered to escort the sailboat towards the anchoring point in Gahi bay. After the sailboat is towed, the wind is completely stopped.

Operations end at 11:00 PM.

At least 9 witnesses were interviewed. None of whom saw two men jump from the boat. The witnesses who approached Captain Mike all indicated that they were surprised by his relaxed demeanor and lack of panic.

One witness, Joubert Cynthia Moulini, contradicted the route Captain Mike described and stated that she saw the boat sailing towards the south. This means it was possible that Captain Mike dropped Isaac and Shukree on an uninhabited island where they could have been picked up.

...

Furthermore, Captain Mike’s lack of urgency and panic made his story even more questionable. If this really happened, why didn’t the captain try to save my son? Captain Mike had time to send an email and said he saw them swimming. What could possibly prevent someone from, at the very least, throwing them a life raft?

What about the witness who saw the boat sailing from north to south? Her statement seems confident and believable. Is it possible that Captain Mike had Isaac and Shukree picked up off the uninhabited island? The GPS route and texts during this time were deleted. What happened to them and what a HUGE coincidence.

The investigation also told us that Captain Mike disposed of Isaac and Shukree’s belongings right away…and finally Captain Mike reached out to me, offering information in exchange for the French investigation. His very own words on a text message stated “tell her I will reciprocate as soon as I can with the whole story to her. There is a lot more that is not in the file that happened she may or may not want to know”."

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All the players in this story who contributed to Isaac’s disappearance have sordid pasts. You can read about the disturbing relationship between Mortekai and his mother in documents D115 a D124 from Captain Jeff’s testimony. In addition to this shocking information we also learned from the investigation that Mortekai’s financial means are not clear and it seems like there is something nefarious going on. In addition to this, he has a history with gun incidents. It appears that his mother Petra takes advantage of some welfare benefits and knows how to work the system. Jeff who has been the most helpful in this crazy mixed bag of nuts, is listed as a sexual predator."

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Stories like this should be more widely known in order to dissuade young people from cruising IMO. People under 40 are just too lacking in common sense due to the influence of the internet to sail or cruise safely - exceptions prove the rule.

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Of course "Captain Mike" has a YouTube channel. Shows him with the two victims on his Catalina 38 and a bunch of schizoid material.

https://www.youtube.com/@SANITIZEDMIX/videos

 

[chester]

Diana was BPD

Guardian approved opinions are boring

Bipolar disorder?

 

[robtoujours]

For the few people raised in a closed world of such spectacular privilege, Charles could have turned out worse. I have hope for him, he has some power now.

It's all living history to me. Growing up, I've watched a countless stream of presidents meeting prime ministers.

The one commonality was that woman with the crown in nearly all the meetings. Authoritarianism is back on the world table, sadly.

There's a lot to watch out there right now in the world. Even this - mostly for show monarchy - is important.

Won't be surprised if some sort of Restoration is pushed to resolve the contradictions developed by Capital on the UK; there are too many ((insane)) factions BUT no longer any effective parliamentary Opposition to resolve the differences in strategy otherwise.

Anyway looks bad, shrug, what we can we do, etc

Bipolar disorder?

Borderline Personality Disorder ... the only type of personality that even a Narcissist fears ... and for good reason

 

[dylan winter]

I feel that I should point out at this stage to the royal experts on this thread that "the crown" is closer to creative hyperbole than reportage

that aside

the middleton woman is rather nice to look at

 

[Jud - s/v Sputnik]

Charles may be unlikeable

Blimey. What’s unlikeable about Charles? His teeth?