Hope everyone had a great Fourth of July! And happy birthday Laura if you actually read this...We had a nice day (unfortunately, there are no long weekends at sea)that ended with a "patriotic 'demonstration'" which included smoke bombs and a series of flares once it got dark (I got to set one off!). Because of all of the holiday spirit, I figured I would enlighten you to some of the revelations I've had/skills I have learned on a boat.
1. The most useful (and subsequently most desirable)thing to bring aboard a research cruise is definitely a bean-bad chair.
2. How to play cribbage
3. How to tie a stellar bowline knot
That's all for know, got to get to work!