Some signs of the times, a timely podcast, and Triumph of the Will directed by Homer Simpson… A textbook example of everything you need in 30 feet is the Dufour Arpege… There’s a great article in Voile with some excellent pictures about the Arpege that is well worth reading. The pictures show just how one …
Puerto Rico news, the price of gas, and in the “Cosplay president” department… It costs money to travel and while wind might be free, most countries require a fee or fees. On the plus side, most bureaucratic fees in cruising grounds are fairly small sums but the downside is they can add up. The real …
Krugman making sense, EBM telling it like it is, and a movie I need to see… Every day I get an email from Defender with their, so-called, best deals. The thing is that they are seldom deals at all and a couple of minutes with your search engine will often result in the same product …
A good read, something anger inducing, and a good reason why I’m not shopping at Amazon… OK, I’ll be the first person to admit that a watermaker on a sit-on-top kayak is dangerously close to insanity. That said, you have to admire the guy for doing what most consider an impossible task. Just watch… Yeah, …
A very good point, some democrats should take note, and an important read… It’s no secret that cruising can be expensive. Nearly everyone will tell you that but I’m not one of those guys. While there are numerous reasons that cruising can be dauntingly expensive, with a bit of care and forethought abject poverty can …
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 …
As the wags are wont to say, “Shit happens”. Of course, sitting on a boat in the Caribbean during the middle of hurricane season one has to expect to have to run through the getting ready for a hurricane two-step. So it does go. So, we’re getting both boats ready for a possible storm, keeping …
Back during the aftermath of Hurricane Maria with nothing better to do, I painted “So It Goes” while at anchor in the mangroves. The paint I chose was Rust-Oleum aluminum paint. My thinking at the time was that it was something Phil Bolger mused would make a good boat paint, it was dirt cheap ($13 …
I’ll be honest and admit that I really hate being surprised, especially where boats are concerned. Maybe it’s that I grew up on horror films where surprises were always sort of horrific. On the other hand, it just might be most of my surprises have been of the negative sort so color me somewhat gun …
Back in the dark ages, when I was living on a CAL 20, I went to a lecture by Herman Daly who really blew my mind with his thoughts on economic growth. Sadly. he passed away recently. I mention this here because his take on economics has a whole lot to do with my thoughts …
