So Greg and I spent much of Saturday exercising our shoulders while sanding the bottom of 680. Messy work.

Ross jokingly asked “Heh Niilo, I think I’m done. How many hours do I have left to go?” Funny thing is that I’m headed back for another round of sanding tonight.

This Wednesday the LIT group are going to selling smoothies to help raise some money for the Mini campaign. We will be hanging out in the front hall of the Boys and Girls Club selling strawberry and banana smoothies from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.

Members of the public are welcome to drop by for a quick beverage and see what’s happening at the club and chat about sailing with some really cool kids.

Here’s a map to the club. Hope to see you there!

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I’ve been doing a lot of studying on coastal navigation lately, so I have been paying attention to the recent inquiry around the tragic sinking of the Queen of the North.

The Marine Services guys at MTO are paying attention to this stuff too, and a friend of mine just emailed me a link link to the media files on the inquest. This simulation video (windows media file) is especially interesting. Make sure you have the volume up on your computer so you can hear the radio transmissions.

I find it absolutely amazing that on a ship with chart plotters, radar and a whole bridge staff, that this kind of thing can happen.