Burnetts Ahoy
A blog by nerds afloat.
Greg and Jeremy are installing Jerry’s new trampoline today! Mel watches from afar, as she has been felled by illness. Here’s a good way to get out of doing boat projects in a sweltering jungle: visit a restaurant, eat a vegetable, have a Coke with ice, touch a restroom doorknob, and then spend the next couple of days living in the bathroom, reviewing the diagnostic criteria of travelers’ diarrhea, norovirus, Giardiasis, and cholera, clutching a bottle of Pedialyte, calculating I’s and O’s. Lots of O’s.
Anthicipating Our Transisthmian Tranthit
The clock is Thicking! Excuse me, ticking! Forgive Mel. She has just learned the word, “transisthmian”, and she is giddy with how hard this new marvelous word is to pronounce! Try pronouncing it when you are 75% of the way to heat stroke! If you Google this word, you learn that it refers to “anything extending, traveling, or situated across an isthmus, most commonly referencing routes, canals, or pipelines connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Isthmus of Panama.” …...
Wayfinding in the Logistical Jungle
Mel knows it’s been a minute. Things have been crazy here on Jerry. If Mel had had the foresight to mount her GoPro on Jerry’s mast to record their daily life every 30 seconds, one would see constant comings and goings of a variety of people and objects at all hours of the day for the last two weeks. But Mel hasn’t done this, mainly because she dislikes the way she looks when hot....
Wayfinding in the Logistical Jungle
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Mel knows it’s been a minute. Things have been crazy here on Jerry. If Mel had had the foresight to mount her GoPro on Jerry’s mast to record their daily life every 30 seconds, one would see const...