Olivia's New Bimini and MOB pole

Almost Ready to Go......

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you"

-John Paul Sartre

Well....lest anybody believe that this site has turned into a strictly tall tale and shoreside BS thing, I have included for your edification a recent photo (above) of the work we've done on 'Divs backside. I constructed a reinforced aluminum tubing frame attached to the stern pulpit and supported by the mizzen mast. D then sewed from sunbrella the bimini top, and installed the 50 odd reinforcing grommets.

I also fabricated the handy-dandy (and hope to never be used) MOB pole from CPVC, a foam filled PET bottle and lead weight at the bottom, flag at the top a la Ferenc Mate's The Finely Fitted Yacht (I highly reccommend this book!). We are currently incorporating other improvements in accordance with this excellent text.

And, we will be installing radar and a chart plotter, recently acquired. The deal was sweet, and soon I will be at liberty to divulge the story....

Another recent purchase, and one I have ulterior motives for is a portable Algae-X fuel polishing system...more on this later too.

Perhaps the biggest change is one that could possibly be taking place within the next month to six weeks. It seems as though I have reached the tolerance level surrounding my phony-baloney administrators position. It isn't one big thing that has led to this, but rather a series of unfortunate (for my employer) events. As if waking up, I realized that I am, like it or not, burdened with a conscience, morals and ethics, something that the world of conjunto politics, where I operate, is not. Rather than (continue to) compromise myself, it appears that it is time to saddle up El Rosinante and gallup off into the third world sunset, tilting at windmills.