Kaimusailing

Those that complain about my driving have gotten into wrecks themselves, some fatal, so I hope you don’t object to my driving. I drove 12 hours from St Marys in Georgia up and over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, CBBT. 12 hours at the helm of a car or truck might seem a bit much, but I advocate 36 hours of sailing, not like driving on a road, but you have to make decisions and deal with a lot of things that don’t come at you in a car.
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After about 24 hours I get hallucinations at night, it’s like my sight doesn’t have enough stimulus so my mind starts supplying. It gets in the way. I can turn my head and it goes away, it quickly comes back. Maybe my mind wants an image and creates one. I’ve had to deal with it when I am really tired, but I wonder if some have this problem under different circumstances.
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So, when you are driving through the city, remember, not everyone sees what you see.
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But for now I am in a sort of eden, the music from the radio station, keep listening, cloud patterns that are inspirational, but I have to go on deck to see if the lower levels of the clouds include storms. Just more patterns. The music,some spiritual, I really like that stuff. People have their heart and soul into something. So, I have to remember, the heart and soul, and the taciturn faces that inside have this energy, sailors. I am like the singers of the spiritual songs, but I can’t sing at all, I sail, our hearts are on the same tune. I love the clouds here.
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We had very strong squalls to days in a row in the late afternoon. I took photos, even with the recharged EOS camera that I haven’t been using. The good thing is the rain leaks of the past are definitely cured, even in a heavy rain squall. The bad thing is the tool boxes on the dock that got flooded during the last squall and are open to the bright sun to dry out, are now really inundated. The wind was gusty, at times the giant wind turbine of Crisfield, the one with a crab logo on its nacelle, was very very slowly turning in the high wind, too much wind. Other times it would be running around 20 rpms or so.
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The squalls are not something unusual here. I remember sailing down and getting hit with them, on one evening we got hit and then again later at night, a one-two punch. I got a lot of work done last summer and now I have to do the same. The squalls and the rain don’t affect my work on Rough Rider Lynn’s new laptop. After numerous attempts to install Navigatrix 64 bit, the new one, I gave up. I don’t think the installer (the installation program) is preparing the hard drive properly, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it myself. So I installed 32 bit non-PAE, which installed easily and actually, after I got it running, seems to do bluetooth transfers more smoothly than the 64 OS.
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I moved a lot of charts including the whole world onto the laptop and phoned RR Lynn. I had lost a similar laptop while unloading a deck cart, ploop, into Somers Cove. She had goofed up the purchase and shipping of her laptop which resulted in one coming in here and one coming into the boatyard in St. Marys. Good, just ship that one here and I’ll be glad, no charge. Win win.
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Some people like to know exactly what the problem was that I encountered trying to install NX64, as it is called, and if I knew exactly what the problem was, then it wouldn’t be a problem. Near the end of the installation the installer, which has copied a ton of files to the new hard drive (the target), refuses to transfer the boot loader package which is called GRUB2. I could not find what parameter was preventing this. Usually it’s some little thing and a good installer would not refuse to do something without indicating why it won’t do it. I did have the same problem when installing NX64 on my similar laptop, we were even using the same 128 SSD. I think at some time I tried to install Ubuntu 18 or whatever, and that installer prepared the drive, but maybe then the drive was acceptable to the NX64 installer. It seemed to fix itself. If I had to do it again I would just use the non-PAE 32 bit version.
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I’ll probably have week or so of non-computer work which means I have to bear down on the Catalina and begin getting her ready to get underway and haul out. A couple of engine hoses looked bad and I have all those new gauges to either repopulate the original instrument panel, or make a new one with an additional gauge or two.
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I shipped Lynn’s laptop out to her the next day insured for $500. She will pop her second computer in the same package and return it to me.
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The marina office said the internet had been down because of someone cutting the fiber somewhere. Now it is back but I am still unable to log onto SCMarina2, which is the strongest signal at the marina office area. At Sunsplash I was able to log onto SCMarina5 using my cheap USB extended external Realtek wifi antenna. I have 2 5 foot Onn retractable USB cables plugged into the laptop and the antenna. 10 feet is just enough to put the antenna on the cabin top and use the laptop on the settee in the cabin.
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The image is another photo from the second squall of a couple days ago.