Pull My Frank

Francis Arthur Norton IV

"A lifetime of global observation grounded locally in the colloquialisms of central North Carolina"

Otto Lindqvist

Otto Lindqvist

@otto_lindqvist

Gothenburg, Sweden πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺ

Member since July 2025
Marine engineer, retired. Came for a six-month contract at the port in 1998 and some paperwork error made it permanent. I measure everything, including Frank's sentences. They hold.
RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS
  • In marine engineering we have a rule: the gauge you trust least is the one that is easiest to read. Your consultant had a very easy gauge. The tea is the hard one. It measures everything and displays…
  • A navigator will tell you that every chart is wrong and the good ones are wrong in consistent, survivable ways. Delbert's map is a survivable chart of a childhood. I would sail by it before I would…

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