my next dinghy…

What’s up in my neighborhood, some coffee news, and in “the future is scary to the max” department… One nice thing about building stuff rather than buying stuff is that it can save you a lot of money. For instance, I could buy a bespoke dinghy like the 8-foot Nisqually dinghy which is both lovely …

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budget basics…

A very important question, an interesting wood article, and in the “peasantry in a modern state” department… Pretty much everyday I’m confronted by new examples of the cost of things going up. It’s depressing, breeds despair, and just generally pisses me off. Luckily, since I’m a non-consumerist by nature, it could be a lot worse. …

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so it does go…

Some mind-blowing folded paper, a must read, and in the “but you already know this” department… So, it’s Presidents’ Day and my email is full of holiday sales because, as everybody knows, holidays are all about buying stuff. Though it’s hard to concentrate on the sales with the cacophony of our dead presidents spinning like …

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all the answers are simple…

Murder most foul, an important question, and in the “out with the old and in with the new” department… I’m sick and tired of the phrase “It’s complicated” especially where boats and suchlike are concerned. If there’s one overreaching fact with boats and cruising it is that 99% of the answers are simple. Dead simple. …

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purge time…

Something interesting on cartography, an important read, and in the “if you haven’t been paying attention” department… Where clutter is concerned, boats are always a problematic venue. The fact that boats have a lot of small places to stow stuff can go from organized to I can’t find anything in a New York minute. So …

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