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-~/Applications/pandoc --variable=geometry:a5paper north_pacific_logbook.md --pdf-engine=xelatex --from markdown+simple_tables+line_blocks --include-in-header=titlesec-conf.tex -o north_pacific_logbook.pdf
+pandoc --variable=geometry:a5paper north_pacific_logbook.md --pdf-engine=xelatex --from markdown+simple_tables+line_blocks --include-in-header=titlesec-conf.tex -o north_pacific_logbook.pdf
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-~/Applications/pandoc assembled.md --from markdown+simple_tables+line_blocks --toc -V toc-title:"Table of Contents" --toc-depth=1 --epub-metadata=metadata.yaml --epub-cover-image=img/cover.jpg --css epub.css -w epub -o assembled.epub
+pandoc assembled.md --from markdown+simple_tables+line_blocks --toc -V toc-title:"Table of Contents" --toc-depth=1 --epub-metadata=metadata.yaml --epub-cover-image=img/cover.jpg --css epub.css -w epub -o assembled.epub
 
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-~/Applications/butler push busy-doing-nothing.epub hundredrabbits/busy-doing-nothing:epub
-~/Applications/butler push busy-doing-nothing.mobi hundredrabbits/busy-doing-nothing:mobi
+butler push busy-doing-nothing.pdf hundredrabbits/busy-doing-nothing:pdf
+butler push busy-doing-nothing.epub hundredrabbits/busy-doing-nothing:epub
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north_pacific_logbook.md

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 # About
 
-We, Rekka and Devine, found Pino on Vancouver Island in the spring of 2016, a Yamaha 33 sailboat built in 1982. At that moment, we knew of Yamaha for their keyboards and motorcycles, but not for their sailboats. After a bit of research, we learned that between 1976 and 1985 Yamaha did build and export sailboats to the Pacific Northwest. These are familiar sights in sailing schools due to their reputation of being sturdy.
+We, Rek and Devine, found Pino on Vancouver Island in the spring of 2016, a Yamaha 33 sailboat built in 1982. At that moment, we knew of Yamaha for their keyboards and motorcycles, but not for their sailboats. After a bit of research, we learned that between 1976 and 1985 Yamaha did build and export sailboats to the Pacific Northwest. These are familiar sights in sailing schools due to their reputation of being sturdy.
 
 Prior to purchasing Pino, we had read a few sailing books. One of them in particular, *The Feeding and Caring of the Offshore Crew* by Lin Pardey, left a lasting impression on us. In it, Lin and Larry Pardey travel to Japan on their 24-foot custom-built sailboat Seraffyn. We had never heard of anyone sailing to Japan, but we soon became obsessed with the idea. Pino was built there, and we thought we could sail it back to its home in Japan! But first, we ought to learn how to sail.
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Following the advice of the sailors we met, we ventured further and further from
 
 Fast-forward to the spring of 2019, when we finally reached Japan. We made landfall in Chichijima, Ogasawara, before sailing to mainland Japan. We spent a year there. Our stay coincided with the start of the coronavirus pandemic. We said goodbye to our plans of visiting the Inland Sea, and decided to wait out the worst of the pandemic in Minamiise, a small rural town. At the end of May, the state of emergency lifted in many prefectures, we left Minamiise to go to Shimoda, our last port in Japan. Then, on June 9th 2020, we began our long and hard sail back to Canada.
 
-During our North Pacific crossing I (Rekka) kept a detailed journal of the day's events. I wrote most entries while off-watch, whenever I had some free time. We encountered a lot of bad weather. I started drawing funny cartoons in the margins of the diary to try and make us feel better. At the start, I had plans to keep a simple logbook, to talk about our meals, the weather and sea state, but I found comfort in writing, and the texts got longer and longer. By the time we had arrived in Victoria, I had filled 3 notebooks.
+During our North Pacific crossing I (Rek) kept a detailed journal of the day's events. I wrote most entries while off-watch, whenever I had some free time. We encountered a lot of bad weather. I started drawing funny cartoons in the margins of the diary to try and make us feel better. At the start, I had plans to keep a simple logbook, to talk about our meals, the weather and sea state, but I found comfort in writing, and the texts got longer and longer. By the time we had arrived in Victoria, I had filled 3 notebooks.
 
 Upon our arrival after spending 7 weeks at sea, the Canadian Customs asked us to quarantine for 2 more weeks. I used this time to transcribe the handwritten pages, so we could publish them online. Every morning, I'd transcribe 4-5 days worth of journals, and handed them off to Devine for proofreading. After 14 days of isolation, the entirety of the logbook was published online. Devine wrote the closing words, to try and explain why we did what we did, a question we have long struggled to answer.
 
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ The writing in this book is not meant to be intentionally harrowing, it is an ho
 **They**. Both being non-binary, we use the singular *they* throughout the text.  
 **Grib files**. On this trip, we used GRIB files to read the weather. They are computer-derived weather forecasts packed into a digital file. We download them using our SAT phone's data, and visualize them via a laptop or phone. GRIB files can be quite large, it is therefore necessary to specify an area of coordinates with an appropriate resolution to keep the files small, the transfer fast and the whole transaction not too costly.  
 **Ninj**. Ninj is our resident mascot, a plush ninja. He is a back-seat captain.  
+**Calcifer**. Calcifer is the name we gave our Yanmar 2GM diesel engine, after the fire demon that fuels the castle in the film Howl's Moving Castle.  
 **French**. We are both French Canadian, so we kept some of the conversations we had as is with translations. In this same vein, we kept some of the Japanese words for food (again, with translations).  
 
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@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ On the morning of May 28th, we arrived near the Izu peninsula. We had left Shima
 
 We arrived at the breakwater, and inched inside the beautiful sheltered port of Shimoda. We found a spot on a pontoon. Our spot in Shimoda offered an amazing view of the port, with many fishing boats lining its sides. Two iconic mountains stood as a backdrop to this small city. A bust of Commodore Matthew C. Perry sat a few meters away. Perry and his warships sailed into Shimoda port in 1854, demanding that the Japanese end its 200-year-old policy of isolation and begin trade with the United States. In town, we found many monuments commemorating the event, like a full-sized replica of his black warship, the Kurofune. We also found strange Perry-themed oddities, like dolls and cookies bearing his likeness.
 
-Our friends Anja and Thomas on SV Robusta landed next to us on our pontoon a few hours later, we knew they were coming but did not know when. The last time we had seen them was in Whangarei, New Zealand in 2018. We explored the area together, all the while, preparing for our leap across the Pacific.
+Our friends Anja and Thomas aboard Robusta, a 13.20 m (43 ft) steel cutter, landed next to us on our pontoon a few hours later, we knew they were coming but did not know when. The last time we had seen them was in Whangarei, New Zealand in 2018. We explored the area together, all the while, preparing for our leap across the Pacific.
 
 We would watch the weather everyday. If we hoped to make any progress sailing away from Japan, we needed a few days of consistent wind from a favourable direction. The port of Shimoda was a strategic point of departure, it was as far north, and east, as we could go. Many ports north were still closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, and due to their proximity to Tokyo.
 
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 ##### 1700
 We check the weather again. We don't normally check it twice a day because it eats up data, but the weather was changing fast. We wanted to know what was going on. We're glad we looked, the wind was set to increase by a lot. If we hadn't checked, we might not have set the second reef point in our mainsail. The last thing we want in this ocean is to have too much canvas up. Shaking out a reef is easier than putting one in during high winds. Our mainsail didn't used to have a third reef, we had a new one made in New Zealand in 2018 and asked to include this in its design. We're glad we did.
 
+Note: Reefing a sail means reducing the area of a sail, by way of folding (or rolling) one edge of the sail in on itself and securing the unused portion. Reefing a sail preserves the sailboat's stability in big weather. Pino has 3 reefs in its mainsail, the third reef of our mainsail was sized to serve as a storm sail. Our headsail is on a roller furler, a contraption that permits the sail to wrap around the headstay for easy and quick deployment. Reefing a sail on a roller furler means rolling part of the sail in, this doesn't give the best sail shape, but it still works.
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 ##### 1800
 We eat chips as a snack. We are not hungry for a full dinner. Everything tastes weird? It's like our taste buds are on LSD. The only thing that goes down easy is salty foods.
 
@@ -381,7 +384,7 @@ The first time we did it at sea, was on the sail from Mexico to the Marquesas. I
 
 It's a technique worth becoming familiar with, it could save your boat and your life. We should have been heaving-to instead of running with the weather yesterday, if we had been, Pino would not have been overwhelmed.
 
-Our boat, with its fin keel, heaves-to well. Slowing the boat costs time, but our safety and mental health matter more. We've got plenty of time to get to Canada. We are glad that the rig suffered no damage, we were lucky. Well, luck has little to do with it, it is because of the Fifth Essential. 
+Our boat, with its fin keel, heaves-to well. Slowing the boat costs time, but our safety and mental health matter more. We've got plenty of time to get to Canada. We are glad that the rig suffered no damage, we were lucky. Well, luck has little to do with it, it is because of The Fifth Essential. 
 
 The first Four Essentials are as follows: A well-found ship, a good crew, adequate preparation/maintenance, and being a good seafarer. The Fifth Essential is an exercise in accident prevention. John Vigor explains this as every ship having an imaginary black box in which points are kept.
 
@@ -404,7 +407,9 @@ Wind has lessened to almost nothing. The sails are flapping noisily. We reef the
 ##### 1000
 We found some wind and are heading southeast, away from the patch of no-wind. Our goal is to work our way toward an area with better conditions. This point lies at 165°E, or better yet, 170°E.
 
-We awoke Calcifer, our engine, to charge our batteries, but noticed there was no water coming out of the outtake? We went below into its chambers to investigate. Recently, in Shimoda, I changed the water pump impeller. I'd noticed it was damaged, and it looks like I put it back in the wrong way. I’ve got a spare impeller, but I can't keep making mistakes like this because I heard impellers are hard to come by on the ocean.
+We awoke Calcifer, our diesel engine, to charge our batteries, but noticed there was no water coming out of the outtake? We went below into its chambers under the stairs to investigate. Recently, in Shimoda, I changed the water pump impeller. I'd noticed it was damaged, and it looks like I put the new one in the wrong way. I’ve got a spare impeller, but I can't keep making mistakes like this because I heard impellers are hard to come by on the ocean.
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+Note: I didn't know it at the time, but when replacing an impeller with a new one, there is no right or wrong way for the arms of an impeller to go. When inserted into the housing, the arms of a new impeller will try to follow the curve determined by the shape of the housing, and will set into the correct orientation if you turn the drive shaft in the direction of rotation. If checking an older impeller for wear, the arms should spring back relatively straight when the impeller is pulled from the housing, if they don't, it may need replacing. Straight impeller arms will meet the inside walls of the housing perfectly, creating a vacuum that sucks and pushes the water through. If there is no vacuum, there is no system cooling. The problem with the water not coming out of the outtake wasn't due to the impeller, but due to a heavy accumulation of salt in the cooling system (and engine head, we later found out), restricting the flow of water. Messing with the impeller somehow did allow some water to flow through, but that was purely coincidental. Yanmar 2GM engines are cooled by seawater alone, and are prone to such problems.
 
 ##### 1300
 We ate [sweet and sour lentils](#sweetsour) for lunch outside, it started to rain but we stayed out there anyway, hiding under an umbrella to eat. We've got little protection from the weather in the cockpit, so we do what we can with what we've got. There is something funny about holding an umbrella while sailing in a vast ocean.
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 We recommend using rainwater for purposes other than drinking and cooking. If you are to drink it, it’s important to boil it first, and to run it through a good filtration system. The rain at sea is likely safe, devoid of pollutants, but the same can't be said of some anchorages. In the Majuro in the Marshall Islands, the lagoon was full of floating fish-processing factories, spitting smoke all day and night. We collected rainwater there, but never did drink it.
 
 Even if you don’t plan on drinking it, it’s a good idea to treat the water you catch. The easiest way to do this is to add chlorine bleach to your supply. This is something we’ve done, and continue to do. The suggested ratio of chlorine to water is 2 drops bleach for 1.15 L. The above ratios are for bleach containing 5.25% Sodium Hypochlorite. This amount depends on the concentration, the ratios will be different for 5.25% than for 8% chlorine bleach (1 drop: 1.15 L). Only use regular, unscented chlorine bleach products that are suitable for disinfection and sanitization, as indicated on the label. A good way to remember these ratios, is this saying: “You must be 21 to drink." 2 drops bleach per L (1 qt) water, easy to remember. Note that 1 qt is slightly less than 1 L. Note that adding bleach doesn't remove chemical pollutants.
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 #### July 11th
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 ##### 1700
 Every time we near a milestone, we hit a wall, whether it comes in the form of a calm or strong weather. There is always something, and this time is no different. We are at a wall, with big weather all around. These walls are, for the moment, impassable, keeping us and our destination apart. The Turn Off lies ahead, but a patch of very strong winds bars the way, reaching far north and south. We'll check the weather tomorrow morning, to decide if we should go, or wait. It's possible the weather will lessen, but it can also get worse.
 
-This streak of rough weather is a cruel, cruel thing, a horrible weather monster, guarding the east, keeping small ships from passing. Vancouver Island is concealed behind it. "What can we do to appease you? Oh great streak?" It doesn't answer—well, it answers the only way it can I suppose, with lashes of rain and gusts of wind. Maybe it intends to let us through, and we are misunderstanding each other? As different sorts of beings often do, being dissimilar in every way.
+This streak of rough weather is a cruel, cruel thing, a horrible weather monster, guarding the east, keeping small ships from passing. Vancouver Island is concealed behind it. "What can we do to appease you? Oh, great streak?" It doesn't answer—well, it answers the only way it can I suppose, with lashes of rain and gusts of wind. Maybe it intends to let us through, and we are misunderstanding each other? As different sorts of beings often do, being dissimilar in every way.
 
 I am eager, and scared to see how this develops. Gale force winds isn't a big deal for most vessels, and it isn't for us either usually, but it can get dangerous if the wind blows hard for hours and hours, then the sea has plenty of time and inertia to grow into something terrible. In Japanese, the word for waves is *nami*, we've often heard the term *nami usagi*, or *rabbit waves*. This is a perfect way to describe the ocean, full of **rabbit waves**.
 
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     Distance to Victoria: 550 km (297 nm)
 
 ##### 0400
-Passed a lighted buoy to the north. It's been a while since we've crossed any sort of structure that isn't a ship. Steering was hard at times, last night the wind gave us forwardness, which was good, but it was hard on the hands. Downwind sailing requires a lot of focus too, making it even harder. Devine is in the habit of making miso soup during their night shifts, for warmth and to calm their stomach. I still rely on small slices of snack bars, it gives me enough energy to go through 3 hours of steering in the dark.
+Passed a lighted buoy (Station 46036 - South Nomad) to the north. It's been a while since we've crossed any sort of structure that isn't a ship. Steering was hard at times, last night the wind gave us forwardness, which was good, but it was hard on the hands. Downwind sailing requires a lot of focus too, making it even harder. Devine is in the habit of making miso soup during their night shifts, for warmth and to calm their stomach. I still rely on small slices of snack bars, it gives me enough energy to go through 3 hours of steering in the dark.
 
 ##### 0930
 It's that time of the day when my body craves coffee, to revive my flesh and to warm my ice-cold blood. We are lizard people, sluggish, in desperate need of sun. Devine woke up around 0930, and was happy to announce that they'd already pre-ground the beans and that the coffee would find its way to me sooner. Yes. I'd already downloaded the weather then, seeing more light winds in our future. We'll do our best to stay patient, but it is tough. We are lying 481 km (260 nm) away from the entrance buoy. So close. We've got fuel, but want to keep it. We have a small allowance to cross narrow calms and to charge our batteries.
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 > "Modern man requires more and more comfort both at home and in the car. Sailors, too, want more comfort in their cruisers, but comfort cannot be combined with simplicity. And when life is no longer simple, it loses both beauty and joy." — Sven Yrvind
 
-Thank you for reading. Find us online at **100r.co**. Our personal pages are **kokorobot.ca**(Rekka) and **xxiivv.com**(Devine).
+Thank you for reading. Find us online at **100r.co**. Our personal pages are **kokorobot.ca**(Rek) and **xxiivv.com**(Devine).
 
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