Sub Sighted

For the first time this season, we saw a Navy submarine docked at the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station. It was hard to notice because it was in the shadow of the much larger USS Paul Hamilton, which had arrived a few days earlier.

This one is a Los Angeles class sub, according to a retired USCG officer on board Let’s Go Sail. He determined that by the shape of the tower. A big factor in the stealth nature of Navy subs is their absorbent black hull, which mitigates sheen. But you couldn’t say that from the photo, which captured the sunlight reflection quite well.

Cold Water

This late in the season, the York River is still 75 degrees. But that’s chilly enough to ward off the summer dolphins. Karen and Mark Allen of New NC accompanied four retired schoolteachers and recalled from the helm his experience up north.

“We were on vacation at a state park in Maine, above Booth Bay Harbor. I decided to get in the water to test it. It was so cold that it turned my shirt this color (blue) and I was shaking uncontrollably. My son got in as well, and he complained. I told him to suck it up. The water was so cold that ever since then he can’t whistle.”

Mark clarified that the water was a constant 55 degrees. “It stays the same, but the air temperature changes.”

Why?

All of a sudden and quite inextricably, the smokestack at the Yorktown power plant has been stripped of its red and white stripes that were useful to aircraft and mariners alike. The plant has been shut down for 12 years. Even if they were fixing to raze the stack, why remove the paint? To repaint it, even though it’s defunct.

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