by Rich Wilson | Jan 20, 2017 | Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk11
Dear David: I liked math when I was in school, especially geometry and trigonometry. I liked how orderly it was, and you could get an actual answer, whereas in English class it was more about interpretation, and I wasn’t as good at that. Within the structure of...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 20, 2017 | Essays-RichWilson
Living in New England, with the major fishing ports of Gloucester and New Bedford, one is exposed to the state of the fisheries. Over the course of the last half century, the major stocks have depleted significantly. For the Grand Banks off Canada, the cod stock, one...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 19, 2017 | Ship's Logs
It was a long approach to Cape Horn, and then a long passage around Diego Ramirez Island and the continental shelf, and then a long gybe Northeast up the leeward edge of the shelf and then to arrive at the entrance to Straits Lemaire. Once through there, and suddenly...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 19, 2017 | Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk11
Dear Annya: We have not seen many stars on this trip because of the weather, and that is very disappointing. On other voyages, I would spend a lot of time at night looking at the stars, and studying a book called The Star Book by H. A. Rey. It is the best star book...
by Rich Wilson | Jan 19, 2017 | Q&A - RichWilson, Q&A-RW-wk11
I liked to play soccer (which is football in every other country in the world!) I wasn’t big enough to not get hurt if I played American football, and besides, the soccer seemed much more clever and intricate than the brute force of football. I also liked to...
