Blue is warmer than white

I only pay attention to physics and nature.  Physics and nature always get it right.  Physics also tells us that blue is warmer than white.  To illustrate this universal principle, let us look at the natural world, and the colours that animals have evolved in order to stay warm in harsh environments.

1.)  The Polar Bear

The polar bear is white, clearly illustrating its tropical origins.  The white prevents the bear from overheating by reflecting the harsh rays of the equatorial sun.

2.)  The Bird of Paradise

The warm blue colouration of this bird protects it from the icy waters of it's habitat in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean

Blue is warmer!  QED.

Padded photography gansey

It has recently been brought to my attention by the local fibre experts, that a very necessary adjunct to good photography is a 'shelf' on which to rest one's camera.  I'm an old man with no bosom to speak of, so the Photography Boobs Gansey project was born.  History tells us that gansey-knit garments have been made with specific cables for specific purposes.  The codfishermen of old used herringbone travelling crossed stitches in the welting to prevent lampreys from eating their testicles, and I'll be using the same technique, as pioneered by the Vikings, to create a chest-shelf on which to rest my camera.

14th Century Woodcut Depicting Codfishing from Viking Longboat

I have acquired a loom

This is a square-rigged sail which I have woven from handspun linen from my own flock, and embroidered with a regal peacock in the style of the masters of tapestry in 15th century Flanders.

It is many a long century since we have seen textiles of this quality and fineness.  Everybody who has seen my fine handiwork exclaims in astonishment at its beauty.

The Physics of Sticks

These are some sticks I whittled in the brig.  If you drop one from the top o' the mainmast, it'll hit the deck.  This is because of physics.  Observe also the annular striations at the tips. 

They burned Galileo for blocking his singles in a steam chamber

Knitting and spinning are super deadly serious, it's a matter of life and death, wi' a curse, when ye fall overboard harpooning the deadly kraken, or find yeself adrift off Tierra del Fuego on a raft.  If ye want to know how to make socks o' iron and jockstraps o' steel, this be the place.  

We'll be having no lace or suchlike ladies folderols here, me shipmates.  As we all know, ladies of the lady persuasion are terrible bad luck on a vessel measuring 16 feet at the beam with a mast of 17 feet tall, and sails with a spin count of 98 ppm, me hearties.