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[Randi]

I normally take the bus several times a week. I stopped early last year when covid arrived. I took the bus once this past July when we seemed to be over the worst of it and I was fully vaccinated. Right now it doesn't really seem like a good idea

[AvastMH]

I wouldn't go near a bus at all these days. My friend has to use the bus to get to work but complains, daily, about the bad habits of other uses most especially those who wear their mask around their neck.

[pommystuart]

Question for the sailing people.

What does in mean in the log when I see "a crop in the hawse" as at the end of each reporting block.

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It's the first time I remember seeing the phrase.

[studentforever]

It's "cross in the hawse", the double s can look a bit like a p and seems to be something to do with the cables coming through the hawse hole having a twist rather than running parallel. There is a complicated proceedure for 'uncrossing' them although sometimes they seem to sort themselves out. I'm sure one of our proper sailors could explain it better.

[Randi]

CROSS IN THE HAWSE. Is when a ship moored with two anchors from the bows has swung the wrong way once, whereby the two cables lie across each other.—To cross a vessel's hawse is to sail across the line of her course, a little ahead of her.

from The Sailor's Word-Book, by Admiral W. H. Smyth, 1867

[krwood]

Interesting they are keeping a such close record of the anchor hawse on these pages (while anchored in Queenstown, Ireland). A cross in the hawse is on the way to having an elbow and then a cross-and-elbow. And indeed it is quite troublesome to sort. Read all about here: https://books.google.com/books?id=SpcUo ... se&f=false.

I also noticed the ship they are with - the USS Miantonomoh has an interesting (if short) history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Miantonomoh_(1863).

[pommystuart]

Thanks studentforever, Randy and Kevin.
We are also in consist with the "Augusta" which hit us in Boston on the day we sailed.

[studentforever]

Completely irrelevant to OW but possibly of interest to those of you with pet pooches and it's a nice story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-59104489

[Maikel]

Interesting they are keeping a such close record of the anchor hawse on these pages (while anchored in Queenstown, Ireland). A cross in the hawse is on the way to having an elbow and then a cross-and-elbow. And indeed it is quite troublesome to sort. Read all about here: https://books.google.com/books?id=SpcUo ... se&f=false.

I also noticed the ship they are with - the USS Miantonomoh has an interesting (if short) history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Miantonomoh_(1863).

USS Yorktown always recorded the state of the hawse when anchored with the port and starboard anchors.
Clear hawse, elbow in hawse and cross in hawse, often accompanied by which cable is on top, are then recorded for each watch.

[Randi]

Completely irrelevant to OW but possibly of interest to those of you with pet pooches and it's a nice story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-59104489

[Randi]

Happy Halloween!



Active regions on the sun combined to look like a jack-o-lantern’s face Oct. 8, 2014

[AvastMH]

I also noticed the ship they are with - the USS Miantonomoh has an interesting (if short) history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Miantonomoh_(1863).

That is the weirdest ship I have ever seen! Looks like a tiny floating oil refinery at first glance.

[Randi]

The ironclads are a strange looking bunch!

[AvastMH]

Happy Halloween!

Nice one Randi!
The sun's at it again this Hallowe'en:
Massive solar flare barreling toward Earth this Halloween. By Brandon Specktor 1 day ago
The category G3 storm could cause some satellite navigation problems, and auroras as far south as Washington state.
The sun belched up a large flare of charged particles on Oct. 28, and now that electric wind is barreling toward Earth as a strong geomagnetic storm.
The storm — which ranks as a category G3 on the Space Weather Prediction Center's (SWPC) 5-tier scale — is expected to reach Earth late on Saturday (Oct. 30), with effects continuing into Halloween (Oct. 31), according to a SWPC statement...

I'm not sure that it did anything too amazing: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/auro ... e-forecast

[Caro]

Halloween greetings from Creepy McCulloch ...

[AvastMH]

A very happy birthday to you April!!

I bet Randi finds a great cake to go with your cup of tea!

[Michael]

Happy Birthday, April!

[Vic]

Happy Birthday!!

[arboggs]

Thank you everyone for the library-themed cake and tea! Based on the birthday I had, the tea is a London Fog and the cake is an Apple-Studded Brown Butter Streusel Coffee Cake. With cinnamon-maple ice cream on the side. Everybody have a slice!

[Randi]

Thank you
Delicious - and calorie-free!