Kaimusailing

I can recommend videos by Kiana on YouTube. Search Kiana Sailor and you will find this young indomitable sailor who has been sailing a 1974 Wharram Narai MKI across the Atlantic and piling on the mileage on a fifty year old plywood catamaran. When she started she did not know how to sail and sailed alone because she didn’t want to have responsibility for others until she learned.
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I had some leftover avocados that weren’t ripe enough for Eloisa and now that she’s departed maybe I could make some guacamole with them. They are ripe and creamy, perfect. An Alton Brown recipe for guacamole contains 10 ingredients. Most of the ingredients are found in salsa, so I bought a small jar of salsa. I was surprised that the salsa had no cilantro in it, which was one of the ingredients in the guacamole, but a friend said cilantro is allergenic to many and that might be a reason not to include it in your salsa. I did need a lime, but to make guacamole quickly, just mash the avocados and add some picante salsa, to taste, then sprinkle lime juice.
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I searched several brands of salsa and only one had cilantro or coriander in it. Most “authentic” recipes have cilantro. Not everyone likes salsa and some are allergic to it, so not having it is a safe move by the food manufacturers.
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I made the quac and it is good. In fact it is gone now, before dinner, along with some blue corn tortilla chips. The ratio was about 2:1, avocado to salsa. One lime, beat up, sliced, and juiced into the mix. So easy and so good.
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A while ago I had purchased a cloth skinned lightweight garden hose for Eloisa to use when she was cleaning boats. Someone borrowed it and returned me a brand new hose because the original had developed a leak. He repaired the original and kept it. Now the replacement was borrowed, again, and developed a leak, but the borrower said it must be due to u/v deterioration. I checked the hose and found it to be leaking in only one spot, no u/v deterioration noted.
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These hoses are about 50% more expensive than an ordinary hose and from my experience, are very fragile. On YouTube, of course, are repair videos, some questionable. It looks like you don/’t always get what you paid for.
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They moved Kojak to midnight on the local TV channels, so I am jonesing on the NY accents, but I can hear them on the internet. The local New York City sports blogs feature a lot of local accents, plus, they are going wild now with the prospect of Aaron Rogers coming from the Green Bay Packers to the NY Jets. Sorry about those who don’t care.
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It’s crazy. There are 24/7 pod casts about the Rogers Jets thing. People going crazy. Entertaining if you have nothing else to do. Since I don’t, I’m vulnerable.
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That’s the whole thing about the defective hoses and hose borrowers, it’s a distraction from the distraction.
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I have been tending to nutritionally dense recipes, gravitating to spinach and lean protein, less carbs. A recent article mentioned a fad diet that I hadn’t heard of before, the MIND diet. Of course I would be interested in that one. It is basically the Mediterranean diet with more emphasis on nuts and berries. I do not have to make many huge changes to switch over, just eat more nuts and berries. They even allow wine in moderation, ha.
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Cap’n Webb Chiles, now 81 years old, was jonesing about sailing, so he has gone out to sea on his little 24 foot Moore 24. I looked online at his tracking positions, one every 6 hours, until the day before yesterday when they stopped. This is significant, I thought, but maybe he accidentally turned it off, but maybe a ship ran him down, maybe he got his little boat into a bad jam. I checked the weather offshore and it didn’t look that bad. I began to worry. I kept rechecking, but no further updates appeared. The next day the track of Webb’s boat landed in Hilton Head, from whence it departed, so, I expect the news will be OK.
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My friend Tom, up in the NYC area, sent me several boating links including a story about a 70 foot trimaran and a couple who were going to deliver it to Miami from Charleston, a trip I have made in delivery with several boats. I couldn’t stand the YouTubers that posted the story, so much that I watched several other of their videos, I couldn’t stand them because they were young and given the keys to a yacht that must be over a million dollars. They should have gone on some of my deliveries, cheaper yachts, mostly not worth over a quarter million.
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I made my first MIND diet meal, a salad with herring as the protein. I had spring mix and spinach, matchstick carrots, raspberries, blueberries, and black berries. A lot of people are turned off by pickled herring, but in a vinaigrette salad, they’re already pickled with vinegar, they fit right in. It’s almost like raspberry vinaigrette dressing, but the other berries are in there too. Someone suggested, “That’ll keep you regular”.
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The news from town is that someone has purchased the waterfront including the Locals restaurant. Apparently the waterfront will become home to a 90 ft yacht and the restaurant will be redone yet again.
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My second MIND meal is the same salad as before, but with chicken as the protein, and sliced beets added. The beet juice makes the chicken look pink. It is quite good, I like this diet, so far. .
YouTube likes to prompt videos that have the same topic of ones you have already seen, so if you are looking for videos about Aaron Rodgers, you will have several more suggested by YouTube. I was interested in guacamole and YouTube prompted me with one by Rick Bayliss, noted chef of Mexican cuisine. After watching that one more videos by Rick appeared, his series is called “Mexico: One Plate at a Time”. He has a video making authentic Oaoccan black mole sauce. I had never seen anyone prepare it before and my own attempts at mole are attempts to duplicate texture and flavor or at least get in the ballpark. His procedure takes 3 or 4 days including blackening 3 kinds of chilies and a slew of ingredients. I am sure what he is making is fantastic, but it sounds a lot like the Dairy Hollow gumbo recipes, epic preparation and lots of dishes, pots, and pans to clean up afterwards. Rick Bayliss was asked by President Obama to become the White House chef, but he declined due to managing several restaurants in the Chicago area.
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YouTube prompted me to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6s7C_wTTv8, which is the building and sailing of James Wharram’s 51ft catamaran, Tehini. The image at the head of this blog is a photo from James Wharram Designs of that boat. Design plans are available for purchase.