So, the yearly Defender sale is with us again. There was a time when I really looked forward to Defender’s annual sale and did most of my heavy purchasing for the year during it. Nowadays, it just seems like a lot of stuff I neither want nor need selling for prices that are rather unimpressive …
Part of the problem of navigating life in a consumerist society is that, pretty much, everyone selling you something is only in it for the profit. That said, there’s nothing wrong with making a profit because, by and large, profit within reason is a good thing. Where it gets nuts is when profits exceed fair …
A couple of decades or so back while living in in St Thomas there was a really nice couple who’d bought a famous (it had featured in a movie with Bing Crosby) albeit semi-derelict Alden schooner sight unseen. At the time I was working at a local marine consignment store and the couple came in …
I’ve been waiting on a quote for a forty-foot section of mast extrusion for the Endeavour but, as expected the rigging company who happens to be the purveyor of said extrusion… Boy do I hate dealing with some marine businesses. It’s not that I can’t live with slow and inept but do admit to a …
