L'Eau Commotion Westabout

An (other) attempt to sail non stop Westabout around the world

Vessel Name: L'Eau Commotion
Vessel Make/Model: Northshore 38
Hailing Port: Brisbane Australia
Crew: Bill Hatfield
25 February 2020 | Scarborough Marina, Brisbane
21 February 2020
21 February 2020 | 59 Miles To Go
20 February 2020 | 114 Miles East Of Australia
19 February 2020 | 220 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
19 February 2020 | 262 Miles To Gold Coast Seaway
18 February 2020 | 304 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
18 February 2020 | 328 Miles To Go
17 February 2020 | 423 Miles To Go
17 February 2020 | 423 Miles To Go
16 February 2020 | 505 Miles East Of The Gold Coast
15 February 2020 | 617 Miles To Go
14 February 2020 | 755 Miles To Go
13 February 2020 | 888 Miles To The Gold Coast
12 February 2020 | 1032 Miles To The Gold Coast
11 February 2020 | 580 Miles North Of The Waikato
11 February 2020 | 1167 Miles To Home
10 February 2020 | 1300 Miles To Home
10 February 2020 | 1309 Miles To The Gold Coast
09 February 2020 | 1460 Miles To The Gold Coast Seaway
Recent Blog Posts
25 February 2020 | Scarborough Marina, Brisbane

Thank You

D Day Plus 4 7am Wednesday 26th February 2020

21 February 2020

A Definite Maybe ETA

Day 259 6am Saturday 22nd February 2020 (UTC +10 )

21 February 2020 | 59 Miles To Go

All Good

Day 258 6pm Friday 21st February 2020 ( UTC +10 )

20 February 2020 | 114 Miles East Of Australia

ETA Looking Likely

Day 258 6am Friday 21st February 2020

19 February 2020 | 220 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway

Amended ETA

Day 257 6am Thursday 20th February 2020

19 February 2020 | 262 Miles To Gold Coast Seaway

Amended ETA

Day 256 10:30pm Wednesday 19th February 2020 ( UTC+10 )

The Corruption of Language in Science

03 January 2018 | 965 Miles to Cape Horn
12:00noon Friday 3rd January 2018 ( UTC-3 )
I mentioned some time ago the corruption of language by the Climate Change Scientist. He follows on in that other great pseudo science Einsteins General Theory of Relativity. By adopting the probably false assumptions of 17th C Newton, knowing they were giving different predictions to actual observations, and combining this with a series of insoluble differential equations using invented but ill defined terminology he was allocated the title Genius. His real genius of course was that he never attempted to solve these equations himself, thus installing himself in lifetime tenure in the American Ivy League.
Being completely bamboozled by these insoluble differential equations and not wishing to display their ignorance by having Einstein himself point the finger, the equations remained sacrosanct till after his demise in 1955. It was only then that all and sundry had a crack at inventing even more abstract concepts and assumptions that the great Einstein Renaissance took off and is flying high to this day.
Einstein spent some time at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Prague and I quote below from Jiri Bicak of that institution. In case you get bogged down I will describe my repudiation first then let you decide.
Chandrasekhar lauds the solution by Kerr of his mathematical description of a "Macroscopic " Black Hole. That they in fact exist is open to doubt. That they be called Macroscopic Objects is totally wrong as the way they have been invented they have been allocated the property that they are invisible to the naked eye.
Macroscopic means " visible to the naked eye".
I rest my case.

<These tools became essential for the discovery by Roy Kerr in 1963 of the solution which, when compared with all other solutions of Einstein’s equations found from the beginning of the renaissance of general relativity in the late 1950s until today, has played the most important role. As Chandrasekhar [59] eloquently expresses his wonder about the remarkable fact that all stationary and isolated black holes are exactly described by the Kerr solution: “This is the only instance we have of an exact description of a macroscopic object. Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time ...” The Kerr solution can also serve as one of finest examples in general relativity of “the incredible fact that a discovery motivated by a search after the beautiful in mathematics should find its exact replica in Nature...”>
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(1986) The Aesthetic Base of the General Theory of Relativity. The Karl Schwarzschild lecture, reprinted in Chandrasekhar, S. (1989) Truth and Beauty, Aesthetics and Motivations in Science, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

If you are wondering what brought this on its because I'm a little peeved at being practically hove too in 25+ knots with only the double reefed main. Any other combination brings on too many bangs, big or otherwise.
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