Back in the day….
Grab a cup of coffee and watch this, a film about the last of the Cape Horn sailing ships during the 1920s-1940s. Talk about hard work, danger, risk….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbyeIXeVr7c
That grounded big container ship
So, just about a year after the Ever Given went aground in the Suez Canal, blocking traffic for days and creating chaos in the supply chain, a sister ship, the …
A sea story about Watergate and January 6th – Updated
This weekend I’m thinking about Watergate, the scandal that began when some operatives burgled a Democratic office and got caught. That happened in the run-up to the 1972 election, which …
Fire at sea and complex systems…
Fall, 2021: So as I write this that ship is still burning north of here about 40 miles (I am in Port Angeles as I write this), with the situation …
Ocean trade….
This is kind of a sea story, I guess. In 1984 I’d been working out of Fall River, Mass on a red crab vessel, Taurus, ten day trips to the …