![[VIDEO] – Dolphins between Terrasini and Ustica](https://www.kleckner.it/stephen/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_3115-708x398.png)
Arriving to the island of Ustica from Terrasini in Sicily, where we left in the morning with a beautiful sailboat, around eleven o’clock morning, we came across a beautiful pack of dolphins . It was a decidedly large pack. These dolphins behaved differently from those I normally saw, perhaps more accustomed to passing ships. In particular, this herd was immediately […]
Year: 2019
We came from Ustica, the Ustica auctioneer. We left the Ustica marina early in the morning and set the sails in such a way that we could make a nice, light and fluid navigation. There was a beautiful sea breeze that allowed us to sail with a Yankee, sling and mainsail. During our navigation we also freed a turtle from […]
Have you ever dismasted and then re-raised? Or, have you ever noticed that you have a soft rigging? Have you ever had the need to measure the rigging tension of your sailboat? Well, to do that there is an instrument called a StringMeter for shrouds. It is used to measure the tension of the shrouds correctly, for navigation or before […]
I remember years ago, the quay tale of a Miami motor yacht commander, who asked what that new lighthouse was down there. The sailors of Milan replied to him that he was the Lantern and this said that knowing the port of Genoa had never seen it … they replied that it was there, at least since 1300. In short, […]
How much does a WiFi router consume and cost that is always connected to the socket and switched on? The black Fastweb WiFi router, with courtesy white LEDs, consumes about 10.4 Watts per hour which multiplied by 24 hours by € 0.23 per kWh makes € 0.06 for a total of 0.2497 kWh. Multiplying by a month of 31 days […]
