Ice Bird: The Classic Story of the First Single-Handed Voyage to Antarctica by David Lewis
Categories: Sailing, Self DevelopmentDavid Lewis for sure is living on the edge like very few people have done. This is a interesting book in how one man on shear dedication survives and manages to navigate in extreme situations. Some preparations is laughable but taken into consideration when the journey was undertaken there where no Decathlon…
Travelling light, or Not
This is our luggage, currently at airport in Katowice, Poland. The red bag has a Starlink and a lot of the others has Dyneema lines and other boat stuff. Living in Malta gives some limitations on what can be delivered. Therefore we ordered the Starlink to Sweden. The journey begins. She; I wonder if my…
Balancing LifePo4 cellS
Our new cells arrived 6 months after order. The cells are CATL 302Ah 3,2V Lifepo4 with dimensions H 207mm x W173mm x D71,65mm. They where ordered directly from China from Docan. The QR code was not readable via iPhone camera but the code seems legit and also stamped directly in the Aluminium. This is how…
Liferaft, why ISO 9650-1
We are about to sign up for ARC+ 2022, I’m currently reading up on the safety requirements for ARC. We currently have a Arimar Sea World B from2021 for 8 people on the boat. In the garage we have: 1x 6 person ISO9650-1 Sea Safe serviced 2021 1x 4 person Seatec Seago ISO 9650-2 year…
Excellence through dedication
”The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others…
Why the majority is always wrong
As the name of this site suggets I have always been a advocate for thinking out of the box. Paul Rutgens logic explains in a good way the reasons why the majority is always wrong. I would also suggest that it explains why some companies, departments and people miserable fail or just have very low…
Government stealing
I just listened to a interesting interview with Peter Schiff, I have been a long time reader of Schiff and he has some very interesting thoughts about money. The words he uttered today is worth considering, “My message is freedom. I’m not giving anything to anybody because the government doesn’t have anything. All the government…
Drysuit Waterproof D1X Hybrid first dive
A couple of weeks ago I bought my new drysuit the waterproof D1X hybrid. Today I did the first dive in it, one thing is sure. You will need some extra weigths compared to what you normally use, the built in mesh adds bulk. Living in the Med I have so far been ok with…
Anthony robbins is the king
The energy level that Anthony delivered his message with is unprecedented. He is the true undisputed king within the self development genre. If you have not signed up yet I recommended it Anthony Live MakeMyYear 2021 I have been occupied these evenings, therefore I went with the VIP package. I have been to some Tony…
Choices and responsibility
Hello there,I hope you are doing well, I just realized it was a long time since I communicated with you. A friend was here visiting her parents last week and it was a pleasure meeting up with her, its interesting to see how values and ”self” creates a persons character that probabbly gives the root…