The first turbocharger was invented in the early twentieth century by the Swiss engineer Alfred Buchi who introduced a prototype to increase the power of a diesel engine. Turbocharging has now become standard for most diesel engines.

I love thunderstorms. I like them while on my boat. But not so much when the boat is in the storm without me. Maybe that will come with time and once I get the anchor setup more to my liking.

Fixing stuff, beating the heat, and doing a little sailing with Doug Rudy of RudyWoodCraft on YouTube. Life is good.

Life’s roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors.

Elon Musk: “Our Satellites launching in next few months have inter-satellite laser links, so no local downlink needed.”

Micael Sheetz: “How does transmitting into a country without a local downlink work on the regulatory side?”

Elon Musk: “They can shake their fist at the sky.”

Abortion, immigration, gun rights and inflation can all take a back seat. I want to know what government idiot that is bringing us these pathetic fuel tanks, and we need a good old tar and feathering.

This is not a problem for quitters. If your going to quit, then you are saying there is nothing more you can learn, and nothing more you can think of to try, and there is no one else that you can approach for new ideas. A quitter is a person that quits before exhausting all of the possibilities. So don’t advise others to quit. They are likely just better at solving problems than you are..

The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment. –Antonio Brown

Do you enjoy solving problems? Then you need to build something that has never been built before. Make most of the parts from scratch. Buy other parts second hand and not in working order and then fix them. And invite others to join you and you’ll make friends too.

I think we are all born with the desire to try new things. How else would we learn to walk? And at some point school, work, colleagues, and even church and family press us into a mold that we did not select. People ask me why I choose Junk Sails, I tell them they lend themselves well to DIY construction and single handed sailing. But maybe it’s also because there are so few and they are so strange, and they fit the mold of my choosing.