EBM with a needful link, Krugman on Crypto, and something from the “Instant Karma” department… In a world where most cruising articles ignore the real to concentrate more on the consumer side of things, it’s nice when you find an article that is based on common sense. 48° North with “A Quick Jump to Cruising” …
A question of note, needful stuff regarding vaccines, and in the “catastrophic population collapse” department… The yachting press has long been a disappointment. Every month I read 48° North because there’s almost always a good article that will bring a smile to my face or some info that will come in handy when one or …
The upside of bringing back Polio, something about Tesla, and in the “Beyond Our Wildest Imagination” department… That recent Atlantic Rally for Cruisers fatality where they were unable to rescue or even find a participant who had gone overboard wearing a self-inflating PFD with a PLB got me thinking that you really can’t buy safety. …
Some ARC rally news, an interesting read, and something I really need to add to my laptop… Every day someone tells me I need boat stuff I cannot live without but have somehow never missed. Maybe worth discussing in the comments if you care to.
Regarding that news story, a needful read, and all that stuff in earth orbit… While reading some comments on a DIY watermaker thread, I realized that boat-based consumerism is actually something real close to being a cult. Vicious attacks against folks who have found frugal alternatives seem to be the order of the day if …
Here’s a fun fact that occurred to me yesterday… Most carrots available for sale here in the USVI seem to come from Canada. Here’s another factoid you might want to consider… A lot of Caribbean islands buy groceries for resale in the USVI. Which is to say that, when shopping for a can of tomatoes, …
For starters, it’s a monohull somewhere between 26 and 38 feet long and, while there are a few outliers, the average falls somewhere around 30 feet. By current “Yachting” standards it is too old to be fashionable and its age is somewhere on the wrong side of 25. The main thing you can say about …
Dave Z with a lesson of note.
I’ve never been much of a fan of cruising to a schedule and planning long voyages just makes my head hurt. Yeah, I’m looking at you Jimmy Cornell. Trying to make sense of getting to where I want to go from where I happen to be at the moment can be problematic (at best). Throw …
All too often I keep hearing folks refer to their boats as being “tiny”. Especially when it’s used in a way to impress. I just can’t see any bragging rights if you’re sailing a 32-foot boat with 11,800.00 pounds of displacement you’re not on a “tiny” boat. So, what is a “tiny” boat? Maybe Yann …
