a simple electric system…
Minimal boat, minimal systems. Just about as seaworthy as you can get.
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Cruising, politics, and cruising politics…
Yeah, I know no one want to have anything to do with politics and my new T-shirt pretty much sums up my current view of things… The problem is that if you ignore politics you’re going to find that they will come around and bite you in the ass. For example, all of a sudden, …
and the battery I’ve been waiting for…
The first time I used a lithium battery was about thirty years ago when NiCads were the norm and this new battery chemistry was just starting to catch on. As a steadicam operator I was less impressed by the lithium batteries light weight but they were a coming thing and now the standard used in …
another dinghy…
As it happens, I came across this dinghy that I had a link to way back when. Hell its got a pointy front as well so what the hell… On another tack, here’s a link that pretty much says reflects my thinking about what went down yesterday and I’m still doing the happy dance.
what’s been on my mind…
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time mulling over the idea of an alternative earth cruising guide. The idea being that if the world had evolved a bit differently that boats, cruisers and cruising grounds would be a somewhat divergent reality. I started thinking about this when I realized hardly anyone cruises in the …
losing the cords…
OK, I’ll admit that I have more power tools aboard than the average cruiser. That said, I can build a new mast, a dinghy, or a self-steering gear, and that can both make and save money. My $100 drill press alone has already saved me a few hundred dollars just in doing new chainplates for …
A couple of words…
While I was waiting for my better half and communing with a lizard next to the dinghy dock I found myself making a list of words that really get up my nose. For starters, there’s the old standby of “Yacht” a word that raises my hackles every time I hear or read it. Which, is …
yeah, WTF…
A friend recently suggested that I should check out a website and already it’s providing surprising dividends. Just last week I saw a description of a different way of doing a journal as a bullet pointed listing of WTFs. The fact is that most of the things I write about boats starts with a “What …
some Patagonia wonderfulness…
Lauric Thiault raising the bar on what a sailing YouTube video should be like.