Happy Winter Soltice!!!

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

We start gaining sunlight tomorrow!!

 

[ScottC]

You're behind. We've already started gaining some seconds...

 

[backinblue]

You beat me too it, but yes this is a great milestone!

 

[Comodave]

It will ne nice to get longer days.

 

[RT Firefly]

 

[backinblue]

RT, nice way to lightent the holiday mood! LOL. you might prefer this to the Beatles version!

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

To top it all off, we just had a 5.9 earthquake.

http://www.news.cn/english/northamerica/2021-12/22/c_1310386780.htm

 

[BruceK]

MurrayM was a great promoter of Soltices. Shame we lost him.

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

MurrayM was a great promoter of Soltices. Shame we lost him.

He was awesome in celebrating soltice. I will miss him.

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

Another way of looking at it.

 

[TrawlerJoe]

Down here in Brazil, the days just started getting shorter! Still beautiful though.

 

[DryDoc]

To top it all off, we just had a 5.9 earthquake.

We? Seems a little melodramatic.
This particular earthquake was recorded as being 95 miles below the surface, in the Cook Inlet region, a remote part of AK.

In a state which has 20,000 quakes a year, 3775 in October alone, this was just another regular day in Alaska.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-39.64413,-211.28906&extent=78.06076,103.00781

10 notable October quakes in descending order of magnitude:

Magnitude 6.9, 55 miles SE of Yantarni Volcano, October 11 00:10:25 AKST
Magnitude 5.6, 82 miles S of Perryville, October 31 07:37:45 AKST
Magnitude 5.2, 49 miles S of Chagulak Island, September 30 15:10:51 AKST
Magnitude 5.1, 84 miles SE of Yantarni Volcano, October 1 05:12:53 AKST
Magnitude 5.1, 11 miles SW of Amchitka, October 22 18:10:02 AKST
Magnitude 5.1, 67 miles S of Perryville, October 28 10:06:57 AKST
Magnitude 4.7, 8 miles SW of Clam Gulch, October 16 08:47:23 AKST
Magnitude 4.5, 50 miles SE of Mt. Sergief, October 11 09:25:46 AKST
Magnitude 4.4, 7 miles SE of Great Sitkin Island, October 1 12:21:43 AKST
Magnitude 4.4, 37 miles SE of Cantwell, October 21 09:44:34 AKST

 

[Muirgen Afloat]

We start gaining sunlight tomorrow!!View attachment 124037

Sunlight yay!! The Solstice is also my birthday... as a young kid I thought it unfair that my day was not only close to Christmas, but also the shortest day. Don't envy your snow.. but I'd love a dusting for Christmas. Stay warm and enjoy your holidays..

 

[Muirgen Afloat]

Down here in Brazil, the days just started getting shorter! Still beautiful though.

Gorgeous.. thanks for sharing.

 

[rgano]

Now, if we can ever get the federal gummint of its butt, we in Florida have already passed the law to go on permanent DST. Sunset at 4:30 PM SUX! Permanent DST won't alter the eliptic and give us more sunlight hours, but OMG 4:30 sunset on central time in the panhandle here is sooooo soul-killing!

 

[phillippeterson]

This thread is too much to deal with today. I had a really long night last night.

 

[kthoennes]

Solstice was such a big deal when I lived in Alaska, here in the Lower 48 they barely notice. We'd watch the sun from the hilltop over the university in Fairbanks and it would never quite completely rise above the horizon -- with a glimpse of Denali to the south on a rare, crystal clear day -- and then go back down. Here Solstice is nuthin', summer or winter. I'll just sing the Flag Song to myself.

(On DST, hooray for Florida, I hadn't heard that. Boy I wish the DC boneheads would end it nationwide. Even here in a major agricultural state it's silly and pointless and makes no sense and just annoys everybody. And it's pointless on the claim about kid/school bus safety too. You shift so they go to school in twilight instead of morning darkness, so then they come home in darkness instead.)

 

[TrawlerJoe]

this thread is too much to deal with today. I had a really long night last night.

lol ��

 

[soin2la]

QUOTE=BruceK;]MurrayM was a great promoter of Soltices. Shame we lost him.[/QUOTE]

Indeed it is.

Here’s a nice piece on the young lad; it’s a too bad he, Pilou and a few other solid contributors have been run off.

https://www.northernsentinel.com/community/in-our-valley-murray-minchin/

He was awesome in celebrating soltice. I will miss him.

Pity you feel that way now.

 

[psneeld]

TF has lost a lot of greats.

Some actually were experts in boating and vessels.

Others in other areas.

Some just prolific and opinionated and of little value.

Some are gone because of their attitude, some because they opted out due to personal reasons.

Some should be allowed back with oversight because of their value as a boating contributor, some....not so much.

 

[Max1]

Happy Winter Soltice!!!

Hallelujah! 3 more months and I can get back to work on my boat!!

 

[bogranjac1]

We start gaining sunlight tomorrow!!View attachment 124037

Your welcome to take some spare sunlight from here. It's C Celcius !

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

Your welcome to take some spare sunlight from here. It's C Celcius !

Oh nice. Summer in December!!

 

[Max1]

Your welcome to take some spare sunlight from here. It's C Celcius !

aw... Now you're just rubbing it in!