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June 2025
For a few days, Pino became a land creature, living on stilts, while we scrubbed and re-painted the lower part of the hull. Our propeller had a bit of a wobble, which we hope is now corrected. We also battled with the old wheel quadrant and were finally able to remove it, at least a part of it. Boaters have frequently helped us while we were in boatyards, and we are finally able to pay it forward. We offered both advice to those who asked and lent tools to folks that needed them. It felt nice. Teapot's new bottom has seen water for the first time, the new gelcoat will allow us to take it around into bays for many more years to come.
We spent many June days working on both Turnip Complete(Uxn book) and the enhanced version of the Victoria to Sitka Logbook, with frequent breaks to enjoy the beautiful places we found ourselves in.
The beginning of our sailing season has been very blustery, allowing for some good sailing, but also often forcing us to wait at anchor for clement weather. Later, we sailed through the San Juan Islands to meet up with some Merveillans on Blakely Island. We are very grateful to be part of a community of such kind, curious, and generous people. The image that was drawn for this month's update represents cooperation between members of Merveilles.
Book Club: This month we are reading Ill Met By Moonlight by Sarah A. Hoyt, Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkien and Girl's Last Tour by Tsukumizu.
May 2025
Oquonie was released on the Playdate Catalog this month! We'd like to thank everyone who sent us photos of their progress in the game, it has been nice to follow along. The game is kind of our first official release on a modern handheld platform, and we're happy to see that Uxn roms run well on it! It might be one of the first original Playdate games implemented that way?
In other news, Devine started working on a book, the working title is "Turnip Complete". The goal is to write a complete and stand-alone implementation guide for the Uxn virtual machine and devices, along with some example programs and thoughts about playful computery things. We might have something to show for it come autumn, maybe.
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