GOAT - Ohtani Pitched six innings, struck out 10, hit three home runs in his four at bats

 In the 150 years that baseball has been played NO ONE hss done what Shohei Ohtani of the LA Dodgers just did.

Pitched six innings, struck out 10, hit three home runs in his four at bats.

https://x.com/i/status/1979523615436460231

 

RING park ready for Halloween

NR2 hauled ahead of Nor'easter

 NOAA predicts a strong Nor'easter will form, with fifty mph winds and huge seas offshore.  So despite a spare sailing season for me [crocodile tears ...we were in Maine for five weeks] my sister Nancy and I sailed North River 2 around to the east side of City Island where it was ahauled at Barron's boat yard.  The last all sail yard in the Bronx - where America;s Cup contenders once reigned and wer built - like commodore Vanderbilt's Vim, and Ted Turner's Courageous.

 

Vim built by 

Henry B. Nevins, City Island, NY

Courageous - the last City Island, NY built 12 metre

Captain - Ted Turner

22 on the line! Hudson River Race

 Just north of the GWC Bridge 22 J-24s and J-80s gather for the start in light air.

9/11/2025

 

Saltatempo - an S boat - N.G. Herreshoff, designer

 

Arctic Currents - aboard the r/v Roger Revelle - Dallas Murphy - correspondent

 Going with the flow

Roger Revelle, Some Particulars:

Owner: Office of Naval Research, USN
Operator: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Built:  9 December 1993, launched 20 April 1995
Propulsion:  Twin 3,000 hp Diesel electric motors
Length:  277 ft (84.4 m)
Beam:  52 ft. (16 m)
Cruising Speed: 12 knots
Range: 15,000 nautical miles (28,000 km)
Endurance: 52 days

Dallas Murphy reports from the sea 

[T]he North Atlantic Current (NAC), a sort of offshoot arm of the Gulf Stream itself.  Twenty to 40 million cubic meters of warm, salty water deliver to the west-facing shores of Europe a moderate climate they don’t deserve, given their latitudes.  For instance, the latitude of Bantry Bay, Ireland, is 51° North, where palm trees can survive, and farther north, much of the coast of Norway above the Arctic Circle remains ice-free year-round.  (On the west side of the Atlantic, that latitude slices across the frigid coast of Labrador.)  So here’s a clear-cut example of how the ocean, in collaboration with the west wind, strongly influences climate over a large swath of the Northern Hemisphere.  And it’s only one example.

MacLean Bros - Trans-pacific Row - they've done it.

Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan MACLEAN.

For practice they rowed 3,000 miles from the Canaries to Antigua.  Piece of cake. 

Now they've done 9.000 miles across the Pacific, Peru to Australia.  140+ days.

And they look the part - all three of them.

And being Scotsmen they've branded it the Rare Whisky 101 Row.

All for charity. And, of course, they've reached their goal.

Row for Clean Water

We’ve set an ambitious target of £1 million for clean water projects in Madagascar.. This would result in 40,000+ people having access to clean water for life.

https://www.themacleanbrothers.com/

https://www.themacleanbrothers.com/tmb/challenges/pacific

Labor Day weekend 2025, Friendship Maine

At our place

Marilyn's herb garden below

Hatchet Cove, Muscongus Bay:

Hatchet Cove

Rockland Harbor

 

Stephen Shore - photographer

  

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/arts/design/stephen-shore-photography-book-early-work.html?smid=url-share