From the Sailing Blogosphere
I took a look around a few sailing blogs this morning, starting off in BlogSpot.com and occasionally following links out of BlogSpot blogs.
First, an editorial review from Publisher’s Weekly, appearing in a fishing blog, of the book At Sea in the City – New York from the water’s edge. The writer, a professor at the City University of New York, restored a 24 foot workboat and pottered round the ‘urban archipelago’.
… minimizes the nostalgic restoration story and takes readers right on board for refreshing views of an island city that was built on the economic foundations of great natural harbors and fertile inland waterways…
This one is now definitely on my ‘buy’ list.
The next one isn’t a blog. I found a pointer to it in a blog that didn’t say much and didn’t link to the primary site, so I found it for myself. How would you fancy rowing round Antarctica?
I streamed out the biggest sea anchor to try and slow our drift but still we are inexorably heading the wrong way and for now there is nowt I can do
… and you can watch him going round in circles in the imbedded Google map.
And to finish off with, the gribbly-grobblies. An eco-blog highlights research at the University of York into the digestive juices of the gribble worm, in the hope that it may lead to an economical and eco-friendly way of making biofuels.
