Today's Dilbert by Scott Adams

Tuesday 28 September 2021

Good anchorage last night - lots of sleep. Would, however, suck with strong
wind from anywhere but east quadrant. Haven't seen water this clear since
Caribbean or Bahamas.

So here's the current plan, sure to be adapted to reality as conditions
inevitably mess with us. Sail today to Cala Portinatx (yes, it's really spelled
that way, but has nothing to do with gender) then an early and long Wednesday to
Palma of Mallorca where we'll likely spend just one full day due forecast
Mistral coming south from the Gulf of Lion before overnighting to Mahon of
Menorca. This protected location is where we expect to hide until perhaps the
eighth. From there a two night sail through Strait of Bonifacio to islands of
NE Sardinia and along its east coast to play for a couple of days then, as able,
on to somewhere in Sicily to clear out of European free movement/limited time
zone by seventeenth for several days of E&E (escape and evade) through Greece.
We're pretty confident about our chances because, as previously mentioned that
we've been informed, Europeans and presumably Greeks are civilized and won't
shoot us, we'll turn off AIS so they can't track us and, although the boat is no
faster than a trireme, our diesel has more endurance than galley slaves so with
a decent head start they can't catch us.

Currently abeam Ibiza Town. Population listed as fifty thousand, but looks
bigger. In harbor is a giant BUTT (Big Ugly Tourist Transporter - cruise ship)
that does indeed take up a goodly length of waterfront and no doubt has flooded
the place with day-trippers.

Speaking of floods, although the Balearics are quite hilly, they were not formed
volcanically, but rather through sedimentation and compression as Africa, having
noting better to do, crashed into Eurasia. The Med dried up as connection to
the Atlantic was closed for more than half a million years then was rehydrated
in the Zaclean Flood over five million years ago. A mile high waterfall through
the Strait might have taken as little as a few months to balance out worldwide
ocean levels which would have fallen thirty feet while the Med rose at up to ten
meters per day. Geological evidence is debatable that this is exactly what
happened or is, if you are truly convinced that the universe is several thousand
years old, a theological prank, but either way rather more impressive than
current estimates that sea levels may be rising three millimeters per year.

Jack & Jan