Since we can't see the wind flowing over the sail we use 'telltales' attached to the sail in strategic positions to 'tell' us what the wind is doing at. We’ve dug deep and discovered a few interesting facts about your favourite popstar. Want to get to know the lady behind the infamous wigs a little more? The Walking Dead is an episodic video game series based on Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic books. Season One of The Walking Dead won over 90 Game of the Year. Definition of telltale written for English Language Learners from the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary with audio pronunciations, usage examples, and count. Telltale definition, a person who heedlessly or maliciously reveals private or confidential matters; tattler; talebearer. Big announcement today for The Walking Dead: Michonne – A Telltale Games Series! In addition to a brand new trailer, here is the full announcement from Telltale. Later it morphed into a word meaning any device which reproduces useful information and for yachties 'a name used in yachts to describe the five inch lengths of wool sewn at intervals just abaft the luff of a sail to indicate the airflow'. I like to think of a tell- tale as a more instinctive thing, that feeling you get when you are off watch and you feel there is something not quite right with the boat. The sound of water over the hull is different. The motion of the yacht is out of kilter. She's staggering through the water not cutting through it. Like a dog sniffing the air, things smell wrong but you can't put your finger on exactly what it is. So you get up out of your berth and go up into the cockpit to see whats happening. First you glance at the sails and you can just see in the dim night that the tell- tales are not sitting right. The winds come round on the nose and you need to bear off a bit to get them sitting right. And then a few mumbled words to the crew on watch and its back to bed. Tell- tales. And it must also mean telling tales. There is always a danger that this sort of writing can become a boring angst driven diatribe about everything you find wrong with the world so I will endeavour to include as much of that as possible. And any other things that are vaguely related to living and sailing on that watery stuff. Skylax and Rod Heikell. This web site will record, though not in any structured way, travelling with Skylax in different parts of the world. Some of you may be familiar with some of the sailing guides I've written for the Mediterranean and other parts of the world and a lot of you will not. This site is not intended to plug those books although I may put up some of the supplements that we do for them and inevitably I will mention things about them. It's what I've done for over a quarter of a century. It is intended to be a lot looser with descriptions of some of the places we sail, on the joys and sheer graft of fixing and maintaining the good ship Skylax, of things on the fringes of the nautical mainstream, on the bizarre addiction to sailing that many of us have that is detrimental to the wallet and often uncomfortable and scary. Try explaining it to those who dwell on the hard bits they call land and you end up muttering some inanity about freedom and romance and self- sufficiency until you see the eyes glaze over and you can't stand to answer questions like 'What do you do all the time' .. Especially the romance and the addiction to life under sail. Marriage and the mistress. Before Lu and I got married I had to tell her that I would always spend more money on a mistress than a wife. The mistress at that time was a previous boat, seven tenths, a Cheoy Lee Pedrick 3. So it was a match made in heaven and the two of us have always put the boat first. Lu is my muse, my shipmate, the one I bless at three in the morning when she comes up to take her watch. She loves getting the boat set up and sailing at its best and she does it all with that smile and hicuppy laughter. She is also the boat electrician, more patient and knowledgeable than me on marine electrics. Skylax, our present boat is a Warwick Cardinal 4. Alan Warwick and built by the Tania Yard in Taiwan. She was designed in the mid- 8. Its hard to know exactly what to look for when you are buying a boat if it is new to you. A trial sail can't really tell you very much as the salesman, the surveyor, and anyone else along for the ride ask you questions and are just around. You can't snuggle down on the wheel and get a real sense of the boat - just a glimpse. On our test sail the rigging was set up so badly I was worried about the mast in 1. But I could sense something there and the rest looked alright. She had been neglected for three years or more. Her equipment was old and in any case the girl had suffered what must have been a fairly direct lightening strike. The B& G instruments, the black box linking autopilot and instruments, radar, SSB, smart charger, all of them contained gobs of molten PCB's and were never going to work again. The grounding plate on the outside of the hull had been blown clean away by the strike. Her sail inventory was tired, the rigging needed replacing, her other electrics and the plumbing were a mess. The tender was useless and her liferaft was destined for the rubbish tip. So we bought her. The price was around 3. Cardinal 4. 6's on the market. She had beefed up floors and stringers and her construction elsewhere was stout. Her shape looked easily driven and so it has proved. Her layout was an odd one that just happened to suit us. Lu and I spent two months fixing what we could to get her ready for sea. Rigging, plumbing, instruments, radar, autopilot. The list seemed endless. Our shakedown cruise was from Fort Lauderdale to the BVI's in one hit. That was when we knew she was a sweet boat. SKYLAX OF KARYANDAOn the northeast corner of Salih Adasi there are a few overgrown ruins of ancient Karyanda. The city was never an important one although Skylax does say it had a harbour, though he may have meant a sheltered anchorage - probably the bay on the east side in the channel. It was not a Lelegian town as many on the Bodrum peninsula were at the time and appears to have been a Carian/Hellenic town from the early Classical period (7th to 6th century BC? Skylax of Karyanda is 6th to possibly 5th century BC and mentions it as his home. At some time in it’s history, possibly in 3. BC, the site of the city was moved to a lake on the mainland, usually identified as that at Golkoy on the coast opposite. Here there is evidence of a Byzantine settlement, under which may be the Mk II version of Karyanda. I have a personal interest in all this as I have long been interested in Skylax of Karyanda (c. BC) who probably wrote the first Periplus or pilot for the Mediterranean and was also appointed by the Persians to explore the eastern boundaries of their empire. Herodotus tells us a little about this extraordinary man after whom my boat is named and for the rest we have to interpolate a bit. The map of his travels is my best guess at where he travelled given that he was to explore the eastern boundaries of the Persian Empire a few decades before it’s expansion to the borders shown for 4. BC. Darius appointed Skylax to make the trip possibly in 5. BC. He sailed up the Aegean coast to the Black Sea and then east to what is now Georgia where he trekked overland to the head of the Indus. River (Greek Sinthos), probably somewhere around present day Islamabad. From here he travelled down the Indus to the Indian Ocean. It is likely he walked the initial stages as the river is difficult to navigate, but in the Indus. Valley it slows and can be navigated. In 1. 85. 7 the British constructed a 3. Indus, although it only drew 2 foot and was powered by paddle wheels for the shallower sections where propellers would foul the bottom. From here Skylax made his way around the Arabian peninsula and up the Red Sea to Egypt and then home to Karyanda. It is likely he used local craft to make the last part of the voyage as we know this was already a popular sea trading route. No account by Skylax of this expedition remains and we only know of it from Herodotus and Aristotle. A Periplus of the Mediterranean survives, but this has later additions and so is usually known as the Periplus of Pseudo- Skylax. I and a number of others believe that this pilot is probably from Skylax with later additions, but that is all a matter of conjecture and for the time being Skylax is remembered by a few interested scholars and in the name of my boat. From my East Aegean go to www. Karyanda? Position reports can be found at Yotreps from either THE REPORTING BOAT LIST or you can download the YOTREPS POSITION REPORTER and locate our track on the world map. Yotreps www. pangolin. Yotreps Reporter (reporter software) and instructions on how to use it. The software is free. You can find Skylax either by our call sign or name: SKYLAXCall sign MGAY OCEAN PASSAGES & LANDFALLS 2. ND EDITIONThe new edition came out in December but check on the IMRAY. Both me and Andy have put lots of work into this. Please. check you are getting the SECOND EDITION. Preface to the 2nd edition. Off the coast of Mindelo in the. Cape Verdes a small tan sail emerged heading at speed towards Skylax. We had been talking on the radio for. Canaries towards the Cape. Verdes and had planned for months to meet up there for the first time. The fact we met up in the ocean and sailed. Mindelo was pure chance. We have talked often on the land. Ocean Passages and Landfalls. As usual Andy was heading. Chile and Antarctica while I was. Caribbean and Pacific along lower lats. For this edition we have revised. One significant change to. From Greenland to Antarctica and the Red Sea to Vanuatu, we have. It's a big planet and seven tenths of it is covered by sea, so. We will put future guides to cruising areas up on the Imray. There is one blot on the seascape. Before this new edition came out Warwick Clay died in. NZ and so we can no longer rely on his extensive knowledge of the South. Pacific. We have done our best to research the South Pacific ourselves. Skylax has spent a busy year and more trundling along South Pacific. Hopefully Warwick is looking down. Valhalla. Rod Heikell. 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