Here's one I rode on a light wind day:
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| Undisclosed location on the East side. |
Saturday, October 11, 2014
October in Hatteras
There's no place I'd rather be in October than Hatteras Island
Here's one I rode on a light wind day:
Here's one I rode on a light wind day:
Sunday, December 22, 2013
78 Degrees & Good Wind in December
The Winter Solstice weekend was good to us. We had temps in the 70s and a nice SW wind on Jordan lake. The 138L/6.5 combination was perfect today. Some nice long planing runs in the extended gusts. we had about 7 sailors today.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Cedar Island - Inadvertent First Attempt at a Backwards Rotation
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| It was cool floating through the air and I landed softly. I believe I can do this with some more practice. |
Monday, July 29, 2013
Boardriding Behind a Boat
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| BR58 carving a retro mid-80's original Skurfer |
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| Brother Tom lip sliding a modern symmetrical wakeboard. |
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
New/Used Exocet Original Wave 75 Liters - For Very High Wind Days
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| Both these boards carve like a dream. These two boards were all I needed for the 25+ winds at the Hole last weekend. |
Monday, July 1, 2013
Bermuda High in Hatteras
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| It was a great weekend on Hatteras Island for board sailing. Solid 25-30 mph winds for 2 days in a row. |
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Harkers Island - Core Sound and Emerald Isle - Bogue Sound
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| Sailed from Shell Point on Harkers Island for the first time. SW wind. Nice to sail with Cape Lookout Lighthouse in the background. 104 Liter board and 5.8 sail. |
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| First time sailing Bogue Sound. First Street on Emerald Isle. Wind was light but it was a beautiful day to be on the water. |
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Deficit Hawks Down
Deficit Hawks Down
Paul Krugman explains the real reasons behind the deficit scolds absurd obsession with the deficit.
Some are just economically ignorant (Simpson and Bowels come to mind). Others in bad faith want to use an economic crisis to cut popular safety net programs so they can give more tax cuts to the wealthy (con artist Paul Ryan and other republicans come to mind).
Paul Krugman explains the real reasons behind the deficit scolds absurd obsession with the deficit.
Some are just economically ignorant (Simpson and Bowels come to mind). Others in bad faith want to use an economic crisis to cut popular safety net programs so they can give more tax cuts to the wealthy (con artist Paul Ryan and other republicans come to mind).
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
The G.O.P.'s Existential Crisis
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/opinion/krugman-the-gops-existential-crisis.html
We are not having a debt crisis.
No, what we’re having is a political crisis, born of the fact that one of our two great political parties has reached the end of a 30-year road. The modern Republican Party’s grand, radical agenda lies in ruins — but the party doesn’t know how to deal with that failure, and it retains enough power to do immense damage as it strikes out in frustration.
Since the 1970s, the Republican Party has fallen increasingly under the influence of radical ideologues, whose goal is nothing less than the elimination of the welfare state — that is, the whole legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society. From the beginning, however, these ideologues have had a big problem: The programs they want to kill are very popular. Americans may nod their heads when you attack big government in the abstract, but they strongly support Social Security, Medicare, and even Medicaid.
And look at where we are now in terms of the welfare state: far from killing it, Republicans now have to watch as Mr. Obama implements the biggest expansion of social insurance since the creation of Medicare.
So Republicans have suffered more than an election defeat, they’ve seen the collapse of a decades-long project. And with their grandiose goals now out of reach, they literally have no idea what they want — hence their inability to make specific demands.
It’s a dangerous situation. The G.O.P. is lost and rudderless, bitter and angry, but it still controls the House and, therefore, retains the ability to do a lot of harm, as it lashes out in the death throes of the conservative dream.
We are not having a debt crisis.
No, what we’re having is a political crisis, born of the fact that one of our two great political parties has reached the end of a 30-year road. The modern Republican Party’s grand, radical agenda lies in ruins — but the party doesn’t know how to deal with that failure, and it retains enough power to do immense damage as it strikes out in frustration.
Since the 1970s, the Republican Party has fallen increasingly under the influence of radical ideologues, whose goal is nothing less than the elimination of the welfare state — that is, the whole legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society. From the beginning, however, these ideologues have had a big problem: The programs they want to kill are very popular. Americans may nod their heads when you attack big government in the abstract, but they strongly support Social Security, Medicare, and even Medicaid.
And look at where we are now in terms of the welfare state: far from killing it, Republicans now have to watch as Mr. Obama implements the biggest expansion of social insurance since the creation of Medicare.
So Republicans have suffered more than an election defeat, they’ve seen the collapse of a decades-long project. And with their grandiose goals now out of reach, they literally have no idea what they want — hence their inability to make specific demands.
It’s a dangerous situation. The G.O.P. is lost and rudderless, bitter and angry, but it still controls the House and, therefore, retains the ability to do a lot of harm, as it lashes out in the death throes of the conservative dream.
Monday, December 24, 2012
When Prophecy Fails
When Prophecy Fails
The key thing we need to understand, however, is that the prophets of fiscal disaster, no matter how respectable they may seem, are at this point effectively members of a doomsday cult. They are emotionally and professionally committed to the belief that fiscal crisis lurks just around the corner, and they will hold to their belief no matter how many corners we turn without encountering that crisis.
The key thing we need to understand, however, is that the prophets of fiscal disaster, no matter how respectable they may seem, are at this point effectively members of a doomsday cult. They are emotionally and professionally committed to the belief that fiscal crisis lurks just around the corner, and they will hold to their belief no matter how many corners we turn without encountering that crisis.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Why Republicans Can't Propose Spending Cuts
Why Republicans Can't Propose Spending Cuts
Republicans think government spending is huge, but they can’t really identify ways they want to solve that problem, because government spending is not really huge. That is to say, on top of an ideological gulf between the two parties, we have an epistemological gulf. The Republican understanding of government spending is based on hazy, abstract notions that don’t match reality and can’t be translated into a workable program.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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