Author: Duncan

  • Garden roundup

    Garden roundup

    Summer is here, apparently. It’s barely cracking 16 degrees on a sunny day, and night time lows are still under 10 degrees. However, the garden is waking up, and the birds and insects are showing up.

  • Afternoon delight

    Afternoon delight

    Yesterday afternoon was pretty nice weather-wise; 19 C, and wind out of the west. There was only one thing to do – go sailing. A west wind means Dublin Bay is pretty flat, in terms of waves. Makes for a nice change from the easterlies that can drive a mean swell into the bay. With […]

  • Back in Dun Laoghaire

    Back in Dun Laoghaire

    Blue Opal is back in the water. Launched her on Thursday, and got the mast stepped in the correct slot this time (it had been mounted forwards one notch for the last few years). We put the cap shrouds on the wrong deck points initially, and wondered why the tension was as high as it […]

  • American dates and brokerages

    Yes, I’m looking at you Schwab. BrokerageStatementDDMMYYACCT.pdf is not a sane filename.

  • Pre-lift status

    Pre-lift status

    Well, it’s almost lift-in time. Didn’t get everything done at the yard that I wanted done (mechanic off sick for months, knee issues), but a few things were done. First up, the hull polish. Cove strip and boot stripe were cleaned off and replaced, and the seal between the hull and the toe rail cap […]

  • Running Kubuntu under Hyper-V with xRDP

    Running Kubuntu under Hyper-V with xRDP

    I’m playing with the latest version of Kubuntu (21.10 as of writing) in a Hyper-V VM to see what the current state of Linux on the Desktop is, and to work out if I want to switch back to running Linux as my main OS (it was my main OS in college, in the early […]