THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Children, okay. But women? Why should they get in the front of the line? You can’t dump on the “dead white male” and expect his chivalry to continue. It’s sexist, isn’t it? Singling women out in any other way is, so why should we be appalled that women weren’t ushered to the lifeboats first on [...]

The (apparently) world’s first combat submarine, which few alive today have ever seen. Now you can be one of them. You’d never have gotten me in that thing. I’m the descendant of  infantrymen. But I can’t help but admire the sailors who volunteered for the H.L. Hunley—and perished.

The wind, the waves, the sails, the, uh, etc. Sometimes I miss the old boat.

“…in 1620, the Mayflower set sail for Virginia. As of this writing, she has still not reached her destination.” Via Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.

“A number of the organizing groups [for the latest Gaza Flotilla] are fronts for Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood, raising money and political support for these organizations and often controlled by them. In other words, revolutionary Islamists are using Western pacifists and leftists to achieve their own ends.” Read it all. Meanwhile, even an NYTimes’ reporter [...]

When it comes to boats, the work and the expense never ends. Especially when the boat is more than a century old and needs a whopping bottom job.

A busy afternoon aboard the Texas tall ship Elissa out of her home port of Galveston.

Nice to see the 16-year-old sailor attempting to solo circumnavigate the planet is alive and at least semi-well, considering the dismasting of her boat in the rough Southern Indian Ocean. Presume she will be rescued soon by the Aussies. If she can blog, we can presume she won’t under too much stress waiting. But it [...]

It probably won’t last at this height of slightly more than 681 feet above mean sea level, not if La Nina kicks in and we get another dry, scorching summer. But it’s certainly an improvement over last summer’s view of this then-dry upper end of Cypress Creek Arm.

Anytime’s the right time for another good snap of the Tall Ship Elissa.