I now want fish carpet for my home. (Look like fish not made of fish, if tried to walk on that you would surely flounder)

Pacific Motor Boat   June 1943

Calculating Yacht Fuel Costs

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Determining fuel costs begins with understanding the distance that you have traveled which is often measured in nautical miles. When you convert regular miles to nautical miles the typical ratio is 1:1.15. GPS and navigational tools can aid in mapping out your journey accurately. Once you have established the distance you must travel, analyze the fuel consumption rate to fully understand and predict fuel costs. Marine diesel engines such as MAN, typically burn around 0.4 pounds of fuel per hour per unit of horsepower. Water conditions and vessel weight can influence this. 

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Monday March 20.

Some mildly interesting Shrek 2 trivia.

Because sometimes you just need a few facts to set you on your merry way, and "a few facts" don't come much more mildly fascinating than this. A few brain-teasers, if you will. Some moderately intriguing factoids to raise your brow a little, and to which your face will express really? Now that is pretty interesting, before promptly forgetting them. They are a whole lot of fun, too, and in the Fallout-style wastelands that we call contemporary culture and discourse, the source of these facts represents not just a beacon of hope, a source of comfort, but one of the few precious things that we can collectively agree on. We are talking, of course, of #shrek. Shrek 2 (2004), to be precise.

So why not add a little orge-tinged spice to your Monday with these delightful nuggets of fact nourishment straight from the depths of the swamp. But this is just a mere whetting of the collective appetite, to prepare you all for the treasures hidden within the dashboard's ever-expanding #shrek fandom community.  

Subaru Domingo "Sport Utility", 1984. A micro van with a rear mounted 1.2 litre engine, this concept version swapped the normal high roof of a small dingy

"I wasn't decided when I called him. I just called him. I decided when I heard his voice"

?? Hello?? ? most underrated line in the show???

That is some romance movie shit right there I'm so serious

special thanks to these pez dispensers for accompanying me during my stay at the hospital. glory to canada

so while I was studying in Iceland last year we went to the museum and were told how back in the day, this Danish guy got stuck in this remote fishing village for like three years bc of bad weather. after he finally returned to Denmark they found his journal he had left behind and it was literally just three years worth of him writing about how much he hated Iceland and I just. I had to draw Fannar LMFAO

The Falkirk Wheel, Falkirk, Scotland

Hi! Is there a Bulstrode character in your universe? If so, what would he look like in the guise of a monster?

Here's a rough sketch. He's basically like a seal.

Outboard Marine Corp, 1958

Cleaning a Boat Properly in South Florida

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tried making some ttte memes (246)

Sheer open top zuko looks like an old time captain of a pirate ship and I'm obsessed. Also glasses

i wouldn't be surprised if there is this lingering threat of zuko just packing his stuff and boarding a ship to take matters into his own hand. sorry the fire lord is not aviable for this month. he is out there securing the transport of reparation along the south west earth kingdom border, fending of the threat of pirates there. please adress him as Captain-Lord or Lord-Captain when sending hawks about urgent matters.

zuko is already dressed for the occasion. swords on his side. jee always keeping the ship running at the port. (not the royal one. a smasl one called mini wani! or wani II)

if politican and royal don't want their lord to convert to piracy they better don't cause a midlife crisis for him every second month.

introversion is wild because you can go from "this (social) thing is awesome" to "I need to leave now but also I don't have the energy to leave so I'm kinda stuck, please, please, PLEASE, someone, please, interrupt the social pattern so I can break out of this inertia" with like no warning. no ten percent battery message. nada.

Watching both the grisha trilogy and sixycrows smushed into being the same story really emphasizes how much LBardugo likes the trope of "powerful people who keep stupidly forgetting that the people they screw over are human beings with feelings and some of those feelings are Pure Fury"