A nice bit of seamanship

[Puttputt]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/u...at-alaska.html

[Peerie Maa]

Paywall

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Yes, good effort.

[Dave Lesser]

Paywall

Try this one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/u...smid=share-url

[Yeadon]

Impressive.

[SKIP KILPATRICK]

I hope they can find happiness in their new home!

[Breakaway]

Cojones.

Kevin

[JayInOz]

After watching a few episodes of "Deadliest Catch", I wouldn't want to cross the Bering Sea in a hundred foot trawler

[Ian McColgin]

They make a good addition to our citizens. As Kipling, thinking it a sneer but really a compliment, what can one expect from a nation of draft dodgers . . .

[Jim Bow]

Also:

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/russian-m...-putins-draft/

[Tom from Rubicon]

Those dudes have a lot of sand making that passage.

[George.]

I wonder if they read Shackleton?

[George.]

Russia must be scraping the bottom of the barrel if two fishermen, aged 44 and 51, have to flee their draft.

[heimlaga]

There are strong indications that Putin&co have ordered the recruiters to take pretty much every able bodied man in areas populated by ethnical minorities and in areas of less political consequence. In small villages in the Far East which is so far from political influence as one can come and where the mayority aren't ethnic Russians they are probably scraping the bottom by now.
In the great cities of western Russia they have only recruited a few so far. As not to damage their own base of power.

This according to Russian independent media (largely illegal in Russia).

Immigrants like those men are worth keeping no matter where they come from. Sound planning, sensible execution, enormous bravery and quite a bit of skill. If one of those four factors had failed they would never have arrived in USA.

[wizbang 13]

I’m not getting the dangerous hair raising part. “Wave crests broke over the hull”.
Newish Suzuki, nice boat .

[George.]

Doesn't look too hair raising for two experienced seamen in a good boat:

[Paul Pless]

Doesn't look too hair raising for two experienced seamen in a good boat:

of course not, that's the sun coming up over america

[Peerie Maa]

Try this one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/u...smid=share-url

Thanks. I remember that from last year.