Rowing The Atlantic

Today got better and better after I wrote. Our progress has been quite amazing with a current that I saw curving E this morning establishing itself in E to SE direction at 1,5 k or more! So yesterday’s suggestion of 170 (nearly S) was not far off. We did more than 40 nm in 12...
Dr. Stein Hoff photo by Stanley Fine

July 22

1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries’ Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first European to complete a transcontinental...

Letters

To the editor, They (BPCA) just don’t get it. The July 20th meeting was an embarrassment. I was embarrassed to see a room full of very busy and competent people having to sit through boring information that served the needs of the presenters, but not those of the people stuck in the seats. That consultant...

Letters

To the editor, The BPCA spent approximately $200,000 dollars on a “survey” concerning Battery Park City. Among those surveyed were visitors, workers and residents, now I ask you, what input should a tourist form Arkansas who walks our neighborhood for a few days have??? What input should a worker, who spends the majority of his/her...

Algorithms and Blues

A Battery Park City resident and onetime Stuyvesant High School student will be traveling to Kazan, Russia in August to represent the United States at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), a worldwide, annual computer programming competition for high school students. Afterward, Calvin Lee is off to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), under a...

Rowing The Atlantic

Day 67, evening. Another day of fog, no sun and unpleasant rolling which became worse again after I first wrote. But with mild wind from SW I should not complain, there’s nothing worse than having to get out the SA! It took self discipline to do the 2-hour stints and I admit I cut them...
Dr. Stein Hoff photo by Stanley Fine