Wednesday, April 16, 2014

the truth of the matter...

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So, let's say you went out and bought an old cheap plastic boat, rehabbed it a bit, and are ready to cruise... But you're a little...
Monday, April 14, 2014

an older boat worth considering...

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Someone wrote and asked me what I thought of an older Columbia 34 selling for cheap the other day... It's not a bad boat at all. O...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Speed...

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The recent quest for that ill-fated airliner over the last weeks should be something of a wake-up call for those who think speed is a goodly...
Friday, April 11, 2014

A question answered...

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To answer an oft asked question about why I don't do more detailed critiques of boats. I try not to be a critical kind of guy... Giv...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

A quick link...

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WoodenBoat has an excellent article online by Reuel Parker (of The New Cold-Molding Boatbuilding fame) about an interesting way to build a...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

How not to worry about outboard & dinghy theft...

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There has been something of a spike in dinghy and outboard thefts in the BVI of late... The thing is, there always seems to be a spike of di...
Friday, April 4, 2014

and in the mast fall down go boom department...

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Mongo dismasted in Hawaii... Sailing Anarchy has the story .
Thursday, April 3, 2014

The wooden stake for your budget woes...

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I often wonder what sort of sound a vampire makes when you drive that wooden stake through his or her heart... I expect it is not too unli...
Monday, March 31, 2014

$1 a pound...

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A while back we were talking about the cost of boats and boat building and how it could be best expressed in terms of cost per pound/displa...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

A CAL 27 in Hawaii...

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Mongo averaged something like 125 miles a day on it's 20-day engineless passage from California to Hilo Hawaii... More about it here...