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Sat May 20 11:53:31 EDT 2017
Slept from eleven to five, and again from seven to eleven. Ten hours.
High of sixty-four today. Chance of thunderstorms.
Goals:
- Golang web app
No, not really. Did a bunch of Faux Bat sysadmin work instead.
Vacuumed and watered plants.
http://www.yachtingworld.com/extraordinary-boats/undaunted-the-42-inch-yacht-still-hoping-to-become-the-smallest-boat-ever-to-cross-the-atlantic-107559
> Now Matt Kent, a 33-year-old professional tall ship sailor originally from Oregon, is preparing to cross the Atlantic Ocean aboard his three-and-a-half foot aluminium microyacht Undaunted. He expects the 4,700 nautical mile voyage to Florida, to take four months.
> “Undaunted is 42in long and 42in wide with a 5ft draught, 700lb lead ballast and a 40-gallon emergency water tank slung off the bottom of the keel,” explains Kent.
> A test sail on Lake Erie demonstrated the unique handling of the boat Kent calls ‘a grumpy little man’.
> “He sails downwind like a champ, self-tending downwind by sail angle alone due to the high mast being all the way forward. With a hull speed of just 2.5 knots he is not quick but he is stable and his square dimensions means he is affected by waves from any angle the same.
> “He just bobs up and down. With a balance point about 16in above the keel and a 5ft draught he has a stability profile most designers would kill for.
> “Undaunted is a terrible boat, but he is a great storm shelter. A sailing capsule ready for the worst and also able to do the easy part, sailing in a straight line.
https://littleboatproject.org/
Chatted with Jay.
He's still into our project.
I registered the fauxbat.net domain and set up a dev VM on Vultr.
Thirty-five minute walk in the evening.
Breakfast: carrots, chips, coffee
Lunch: macaroni
Dinner: pizza
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