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Dec 31, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |John Green |Ron Chernow |Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane
As we begin a new year and (try our best to) stick to our resolutions, we’re so excited to take a peek ahead at all the exceptional reading 2025 has to offer us. One of our favorite resolutions? Reading more nonfiction. The best kind of nonfiction teaches us about the world, its people, and our history. Through indelible memoirs, hard-boiled history, exciting biographies and so much more, this is our most anticipated nonfiction of 2025.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
oceannavigator.com | Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane
On board Beetle, with her 8-foot draft, I like to anchor in 30 feet of water when possible. This often puts me way out on the fringe of the fleet, and that’s fine—there’s a reason Beetle carries a dinghy with an outboard motor. Sometimes I can’t find 30 feet of water, and the bottom is much further away—150-foot depth is my maximum so far. The general anchoring scope recommendations I’ve read call for 3:1 or 4:1 on all chain and 5:1 to 7:1 (better) on a short length of chain plus nylon rode.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
frontiersin.org | Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane
The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Receive an email when it is updatedYou just subscribed to receive the final version of the articleData on the reproductive biology of elasmobranchs are essential for understanding their life history. Published studies on batoid ray reproductive biology are comparatively scarce, leading to limited understanding and data gaps. The Oceania fantail ray, Taeniura lessoni, is a good example.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
oceannavigator.com | Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane
The toolsThe sewing machine onboard Beetle is a Sailrite LSZ1, essentially a walking-foot upholstery machine with straight and zig-zag (but not Federal 308, four-point stitch), which handles threads from Tex 30 to 135 for repairs in everything from spinnakers to the mainsail. Fortunately, I have not had to make many sail repairs underway, the exceptions being a damaged light-air staysail and the No. 2 genoa.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane
'Owls hear noise glistening from every angle, glittering in every nook' Credit: Alamy This October marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most famous thought experiments.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
rp.pl | Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane
Seria pogodnych nocy na początku listopada przyniosła pierwsze mrozy. Na stojącej wodzie pojawiła się warstewka lodu. Księżyc wisiał nisko nad miastem – żółty, gdy rósł; srebrny, gdy zanikał. Po mrozie przyszły wichury, a liście kasztanowca, poluźnione przez mróz, opadały setkami tysięcy na krawężniki i żywopłoty.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
oceannavigator.com | Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane
By Rob MacFarlaneWhen I’m cruising my usual practice is to anchor out each evening. As needed, however, my Morgan 45 Tiger Beetle will spend a night in a marina, which is great for a large shore-side food shopping, meeting an arriving friend, and doing work at the yard. I’ve found that visiting random marinas requires a variety of relatively simple accouterments to make life at the dock proceed smoothly. ElectricityAC power is unpredictable.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
fairsnape.substack.com | Martin Brown |Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane
As we approach midwinters day here are three great opportunities to engage with so as to end the year on a regenerative high and in preparation for a fruitful 2024. In chronological order …Regenerative Design at Ramboll – 3 Principles in UnionWe are looking forward to round off 2023 with a regenerative design focus with Veronika Petrova sharing insights from Ramboll’s Regenerative Design journey.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
oceannavigator.com | Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane
By Rob MacFarlaneWhen out cruising on my Morgan 45 Tiger Beetle, I anchor out rather a lot, so I become a good friend with my windlass for managing the ground tackle. A big enough boat will likely require ground tackle too heavy to lift by hand, and an all-chain rode will make it impossible raise — unless you can dead-lift that much weight. Enter the windlass, an enormously powerful geared-down motor-driven gypsy and capstan.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
terryfreedman.substack.com | Crispin Sartwell |Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane |Jonathan Meades |Terry Freedman
Greetings!The first part of this newsletter comprises a rather long article about good beginnings to articles. Then there are a couple of articles about tools I use. In one case it was to extract the text from a fifty year-old stencilled magazine. In the other it’s how I organise the resources for this newsletter and other blogs/newsletters I publish. As you know, I write and publish a lot; I need to be organised or it all fall apart. But enough of this persiflage! Let’s get to it.
