#marking this as fav bc wow info dump

[saiiboat]

ok i know yall like boats so: top 5 boats

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1. Shamrock V. i love her so much. shes a j-class yacht and her birthday is tomorrow. she was launched on 14 April 1930. i love her. she was also originally owned by sir thomas lipton. you know. from lipton tea. wild. She's also one of the few remaining J-class boats, most of which are wooden-hulled!! most if not all of the metal-hulled J-class boats were scrapped for parts during WWII :(( but!!! she is still sailing!!! she's about to turn 92.

okay the rest of these are production boat makes and types. i just really love Shamrock V.

2. sunfish 14'. we dragged our dad's sunfish from when he was a kid out of the barn and learned how to sail and repair boats on one of these! we have a very strong emotional attachment to red sunfish with white stripes and might cry if we see one (ours was backed into by a construction worker while she was in the driveway for repairs. sorry for traumadumping. i miss her)

3. o'day mariner 19 2+2. this was our dream daysailer all throughout highschool and we're looking at bigger boats now that we have the means to do so and put the work in, but the o'day mariner will always have a place in our heart fr fr. its our discord and pluralkit system icon if you ever see that.

4. Flying Junior. We raced these!!! They're like a narrower 420 (hehe) and are super fun. It was also the first boat we ever single-handed!!! This is the kinda boat that WILL capsize but is easy to get back up and get moving again. one time during a race one of the boats on the opposing team called us out on kinetics (rocking boat to generate movement without sails) while we were just trying to catch the wind (bad day for race. no wind. it sucked.) and so me n my crew said. yeah okay. and did a penalty circle and the gibe gave us enough momentum to pass them and win the race. suck it.

okay ik we said it was all production boats after Shamrock V but we have another non-production boat we're attached to

5. Schooner America 2.0. a BEAUTIFUL schooner down in Key West that we once sailed on. We bought a ticket for civilian day cruise bc we're autistic and she's modeled after the first winner of the America's Cup and we ended up talking to the captain for a while and anyways thats how we ended up as the helmsman of a 105' racing schooner for a couple hours. it was possibly one of the best days of our life. it was so fucking windy.

[nurulalviaistiqomah]

2018 Water Summer Camp - Taiwan

July, 16-18 2018

One day, on a hot summer day, I got an email that I got accepted to join a summer camp in Taipei. Im so excited of course bcs I’ll have an additional activity during my boring summer holiday while waiting for my summer course begin.

This activity is 2018 Water Summer Camp, held by Taiwan International Institute for Water Education and National Taiwan University. This activity is sponsored by Water Resources Planning Institute of Taiwan.

The participants are foreigner students from all over taiwan with related major such as hydrology, civil engineering, environmental engineering etc. In this camp, we do discussion about water environment condition, challenges, and opportunity between taiwan and participants's country. We do also visit some water related infrasructures, here those are

Shihmen dam (https://goo.gl/maps/irfTgwnPFC32)

This is a multipurpose dam that act as reservoir, power supply, flood prevention and as well as recretional area. I can't give detail technical story but Wikipedia does you can  learn more detail from there hehe. This place is very beautiful, you can note this place as one of your option of tourism destination if you’re around Taoyuan. There is an office building near the monument where you can get information about the dam and they also provide film about the hostory of the dam. The participants got a chnace to have a ferry trip around the reservoir with solar based power ship. 

taking a photo group. a must have done activity in front of the landmark of the place we visit :D

enjoying an ice cream before having a ferry trip

Yuansantzi flood diversion (https://goo.gl/maps/5KYARUhZZgx)

This place is very interesting for me, yea bcs this is my first time knowing this kind of infrastucture, a new intetersting knowledge. Long short story, this infrastructure help prevent Nothern Taiwan area from flooding caused by typhoon by throwing the excess water through a tunnel.

the miniature layout of the flood diversion infrastructure

Xinhai Constructed Wetland and Wetland Story House in New Taipei City (https://goo.gl/maps/Po7dCJ7xwSU2)

So, this place is where the domestic wastewater from wanna one's lai guan lin house goes and being treated here before it discharge to the water body haha (ok don’t believe this bcs i don’t know where’s excactly guanlin’s house hehe). 

The history is in the past time banks of Dahan creek turned into garbage dump bcs of the growing population. In 1992, the new Taipei city goverment relocate this area and in 2003 the wetland was constructed. It was finished in 2009. This is interesting, because instead of using wastewater treatment plant, they use constructed wetland that also can become a recreational&educational area in the river bank. Also I marked unique thing here is they put a barcode on the tree in this area, so ppl can just scan it, and snap here u get the info about the tree. Wow ok we're living in high tech era now.

Lotus can remove organic pollutants from water

There is also wetland house near this area where u can study about the wetland and also have fun at the same time bcs they provide many interesting activity, and the good news is it's free to come there. If you want to know more about the wetland  story house i think you can visit this website http://www.hrcm.ntpc.gov.tw

I think this place is suitable for kids to learn about river ecology

10th River Basin Management Bureau office 

This office is the command center on operation of all flood control devices, include Shihmen and Fetsui reservoirs, gate of levee and pumping stations. They offer public service about river regulation and flood plain management. Their mission is of course to make sure people in Taipei area will live without fear of flood. What's cool here is people in this office do not working alone, there are citizen volunteers whos actively repot the water condition around the area.

Hoaa this was the last place to visit means the camp was going to end

What I like is this is my first time joining an event here where the organizer considering so much about what the participants eat. They provide halal food for moslem participant, im so happy for this they even provide "rengginang" and "peyek" like omg where they found this haha.

We also got a very cozy accomodation. We were nomaden actually but my fav one is when we stayed at Chientan Youth Activity Center bcs I got a room with beautiful view of Shilin District hehe.

Morning view of Taipei.

It was nice I can meet many insprirational friends, experts and professors in this event. Thank u for the organizers for helding this activity so i can have "berfaedah" thingy during my summer holiday ^^