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A trick that has always worked for me requires a good size hypodermic needle (an 18 or 20 gauge, depending on the size of the hook). You slide the needle along the wound track along the inside of the hook and engage the lumen (opening) of the hypodermic needle onto the barb of the hook. With...

The mahindra website is listing the "hauling" capacity as "1.25 tons" - 2,500 lbs, I guess. Looks like a nice little truck. http://www.mahindrana.com/Vehicles.html

Interesting. I use VM ware fusion, which I like better than bootcamp, because it runs in a separate window, and doesn't require me to reboot to switch OSs. Still got to have a copy of XP on the computer, though.

I really think the Allweather boat is a design whose time has come. The fuel economy and range are fantastic, and It seems to have superior capacity to deal with heavy seas. I really like the lines of the double ender displacement hull, too. It seems like a great Alaska boat. Speed of 6...

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I made the reverse of that trip 33 some years ago in a commercial fishing boat. Coming across the gulf is the biggest hurdle. Once you are on the inside passage it's no sweat, but from Kachemak bay to Elfin Cove, a distance of over 600 statute miles, there are precious few places to find fuel...

My dad used to have a loran receiver in his Cessna 182 some 25 or 30 years ago. It saved my bacon once or twice when I got caught VFR on top flying around Northwest Alaska. I guess It makes sense to keep the redundancy of both land and satellite based systems. In 1992 I was living in Monrovia...

The USS Montpelier USN 765, a Los Angeles class attack sub made a port call in Bizert, Tunisia this week, and I was lucky enough to get a tour. Wow! It's 362 feet long, 33 feet beam and 20 foot draft. For over 130 some crew, this boat is NOT roomy. I don't think I'd like to be a submariner...

USS montpelier

In Juneau there is a cable car that's worth taking for the great view. In Skagway, the White pass and Yukon narrow guage railroad excursion up to the summit is great. There are also some nice (and free) national park service guided walking tours that are interesting (skagway has a lot of...

John: If you were looking for a more economical solution than the electric diaphragm pump, you could go to a manual pump like this one: http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/st ... /168/75/11 You can get non-collapsible hose for 3.50 a foot or so, and you should only need a few feet - say a 5...

I saw a portable pump out rig once, that I've been thinking of trying to recreate. It was a diaphragm pump such as this one: http://shop.torresen.com/ships_store/index.php?p=details&ident=304317&mfc=Whale&sku=BP2554B&prod_name=Gulper+Toilet+Pump+%281-1%2F2+%93%29&sectionid=2548 which was wired...

Telemedicine from home (or a boat) isn't really very practical. First, you need a really high resolution camera (and lots of bandwidth) to get a usable visual feed. More importantly, you need a clinics worth of medical equipment such as otoscopes (with special camera), ophthalmoscope (with...

Bon Voyage! How are you leaving Cordova, and accessing the Alcan? Are you taking the Ferry to Whittier and driving from there or connecting to the Kennicott to get to Hains, Scagway or Prince Ruppert? You cut out a lot of trailering accessing the Alcan from SE Alaska or BC, but of course it...

I'm going to be in Alaska from June 24th through July 23. I'm not 100% sure I'll be able to, but I'm going to try to make it to the gathering. Jim

Dan: I think I saw some blue sky in a few of your pictures of Long bay. Are you sure its in PWS?

I second JoeP's comments on folding bikes. He gave a very good synopsis on the relative merits of the various folders. I'll add this about folding the bike Fridays, though. They make many different models, including recumbents, tandems, and even a bike that can be configured as either a...

During my 15 years in the Foreign Service I've never had the opportunity to see any U.S. Naval vessels. (They don't make it to landlocked sub-Saharan African countries for some reason). There aren't any Navy bases in Alaska anymore, either, so I never got to see any there. In the past month...

I've finally made it out of the Sahara Desert, and am now at least near the Sea, although I'm still far away from my boat. I've transferred to Tunis, Tunisia, which is a lovely Mediterranean country. My boat's in Anchorage and I hope to spend 6 weeks or so on it next summer. Tunis is a...

The coastal pilot usually has good info on anchorages.