Comments on: This Junk’s not Chinese

By: Peter A. Mello

Peter A. Mello — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:47:42 +0000

Patrick, in case you didn't notice, this is a maritime blog and a junk is a type of boat Also, the point of the post was to raise awareness of worthy cause which also highlighted the problem with our manufacture, consumption and discharge of American "junk." Did you even read the post?

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:28:13 +0000

thanks for the racist title – you know most of the world’s trash and pollution is created as a result of American and European consumption?

By: bonnie

bonnie — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:04:40 +0000

Likewise. The sea kayak world has gone expedition mad, it’s like you can’t be taken seriously as a professional kayak guide & instructor if you haven’t done at least one ludicrously grueling & potentially life-threatening expedition.

Me, I try to keep my boating well within the parameters of “fun”.

I do enjoy reading the stories of those who do have the whatever-it-is (cojones, congenital insanity, or combination thereof) to do these wilder things.

By: Peter A. Mello

Peter A. Mello — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:28:05 +0000

Thanks Bonnie. I love these man (or woman) against the sea stories. Probably cuz I don’t have the bollards to undertake any of these crazy adventures. ;-)

By: bonnie

bonnie — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:22:50 +0000

oops –
http://pacific-islander.blogspot.com/2008/03/riding-waves-from-hawaii-to-japan.html

By: bonnie

bonnie — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:15:10 +0000

Did you see the wave-powered boat?

Not surfing, actually generating drive.

I’ve heard that there’s another transatlantic rower gearing up for a 2009 attempt in the Norwalk area – he had a couple of painful losses to cancer & the money he raises will go to cancer. I’ve been showed the dock where his big yellow transatlantic rowboat is kept, but it hasn’t been there the last 2 times I was there. Probably out rowing. I keep hoping to see it & get a picture though!