How to tie a Truckers Hitch

How to tie  KNOTS.*    < click the link*

Ken Reed sent me the above link about how to tie a Truckers Hitch.  As a sailor we use several knots and try to avoid getting our lines messed up and tangled.  We dont want our dinghy to get free, our fenders to fall off, our boat to run rampant....  

Today it's raining now, earlier and going to rain all day.  The storm Alberto in the gulf is causing havoc everywhere.  So I'll stay aboard ALL DAY and read a book, type on my computer and cook dinner.  I'm thinking Pressure Cooker Pork Ribs.  #Yum.

I hope you are not hungry.          

 -skip

ps.  Happy Memorial Day everyone, especially our military.  I watched the local TV here in Marsh Harbor, which is Pirated from Miami.  It was showing lots of tributes and reminders of our military.  Thank you for your service.  I salute you.  

Finally this afternoon after the rain cleared off some I went to shore.  I expected stores to be closed.  Except it's NOT Memorial Day here.  In the Bahamas it's just Monday.  I was reminded yet again that my perspective is skewed. 

Rangers Abaco District

Today is Saturday 5.26.18.  Yesterday i rode my bike to the Post Office at the Government Complex building.  I mailed my Aunt Nona a card.  (it's been too long Nona)  While i was at the Government complex, a maintenance worker invited me back today.  She said, "be here at 11am and bring your camera."  So, i did.

The Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) is the navy of The Bahamas. Since The Bahamas does not have an army or an air force, its navy composes the entirety of its armed forces. Under The Defence Act, the Royal Bahamas Defence Force has been mandated to defend The Bahamas, protect its territorial integrity, patrol its waters, provide assistance in times of disaster, maintain order in conjunction with the law enforcement agencies of The Bahamas, and carry out any such duties as determined by the National Security Council.

These are new recruits of Rangers.  The RBDF training team.  School children enter the program and progress up through the ranks.  Today was new recruit graduation day.

 Inspection

 Parade

 Prayer

National Anthem sung

Special Academic Awards

Great job kids.  A special congrats to the 6 who won academic awards for their hard work at school.  Thanks to the Minister of National Security and the RBDF Commodore Tellis Bethel.

I wish i could be a Ranger!    -dock rat Skip