Daniel Coulton-Shaw

Life is too small not to always look for exceptional thoughts and things.

Daniel Shaw

Because life is too small not to always look for exceptional thoughts, people & experiences...About

Heavy Weather Sailing (Added to notion)

Use this handy checklist to be dependable in heavy weather sailing:

  • Plot position at first sign of worsening visibility
  • Maintain plot e.g. with GPS
  • Hoist radar reflector if not permanently rigged
  • Put on life-jackets and safety harnesses
  • Take seasickness tablets if required
  • Secure loose gear on deck and below
  • decrease the area of the mainsail using reefs. (I usually take in one more than immediately required or simply drop the mainsail, and use the Genoa to get ahead)
  • Prepare simple food in accessible locker (it’s tough getting at the food and a boiling kettle in a storm)
  • Pre-plan navigation and escape routes

Life Is Short (Added to notion)

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

– Brandon Lee – (Son of Bruce Lee)

The most dangerous email habit (Added to notion)

Here’s one of the most dangerous email habits:

Checking your email first thing you wake up.

We’ve all done it.

We pick up our phone, tablet, look at the PC and check through our emails for something… for what? To know that you’re important, wanted, needed?

What inevitably happens? That one email destroys any real change of true productivity for the whole day. STOP!

Don’t check your email first thing when you wake up.

Wake up, go through your morning routine and then get one thing done.

Seriously, just one thing. Preferably your most important task. Then check your email.

Then if you go down the dark path of a very unproductive day, at least you’ve done one productive thing you can be proud of.

Ever had those days where you just said, “I’ve done nothing of worth at all!”?

Stop checking email first thing in the morning, and won’t have to say that again.

GCR.org

The Global Clinic Rating is a project that focuses on helping medical clinics become better and on the other hand allowing patients to compare clinics transparently, as they would a hotel or restaurant.

It has become an independent, industry-standard benchmark for clinical standards & patient satisfaction, designed to allow both patients and clinics to check private medical facilities based on:

  • patient reviews
  • collected expertise
  • level of facilities
  • services available

and compare the results with other private medical clinics in the same town, country, continent and worldwide.

It includes both officially certified and uncertified clinics. [Read more…] about GCR.org

Night Sailing Tips

To sail at night is to experience the most intense, spiritual joy that sail cruising affords. Between the dandy sun’s swaggering exit in the west and it’s opulent rise in the east, everything is transformed during night sailing.

The soft wind sighs on your skin like worn leather as senses heighten to a synaptic crescendo. Away from land’s gaudy dazzle, you’re an outsider, a nomad with a quest beneath a billion stars that gossip in galaxies as satellites and shooting stars slide and streak across the majestic roof of the night.

At sea level red, green and white lights blink and sweep the monotonous messages like distant satellites across the undulating plane of your private cosmos. The sense of getting away from it all, living an adventure, is utterly exquisite.

That’s all good, but night sailing require an extra cautious approach, so here are some night sailing ideas, tips and advice: [Read more…] about Night Sailing Tips