A very interesting lecture, some important reading, and the best concise riff I've read on the Indiana stupidity yet (though BadTux comes close)...The...
on the positive side of contraction...
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David Simon tells it like it is, hot news from Antarctica, and some thoughts on so-called christian values...A lot of my thinking regarding boats is based...
Not a 1.5 million dollar boat...
| 0 comments |Labels: Cruising Culture, Sailboat design, Sweet rides
A modest proposal (I'd be in favor of), the high cost of the food on your table, and that sound you're hearing just might be Teddy Roosevelt spinning...
In the money well spent/not so good journalism department...
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So much for putting convictions to the test, another guy with some serious conviction issues, and something about the water...So many boats...So little...
I have achieved Nirvana...
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This is depressing, Donkey Mountain simply nails it, and something worth reading... So, as many of you are no doubt aware, the yearly sale at Defender...
two hulls, two masts...
| 0 comments |Labels: Catamarans, Multihulls, Rigs, Sailboat design
The main attraction of Cuba, greedy bastards, and in the "Yeah right" department...Bernd Kohler has a new design up his sleeve that is well worth checking...
a damn near perfect boat...
| 0 comments |Labels: Boatbuilding, Fit out, Sailboat design
I'd call this something of a success story, one can only hope, and, in the "Where have the best & brightest gone" department, proof positive that...
a sorta/kinda day off...
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Looking towards the future (serfdom edition), sense being made, and not exactly the sort of introduction to the democratic process they deserved...So,...
Why yesterday was a great day...
| 0 comments |Labels: Boatbuilding, Sailboat design
A rather good point, something about rich people & suckers, and, I suspect, this was not what Jesus would have been in favor of...Yesterday I learned...
something about formply...
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Irony found dead with a stake through its heart in Arkansas, making the point, and you need to read this because new anchoring laws have zero to do with...
What were you doing on the holidays?
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Irony in the South Pacific, a very interesting conversation, and yep, racisim doesn't exist anymore...Trans-Atlantic with theEco Sailing Project...Listening...
the ongoing anchoring conundrum...
| 0 comments |Labels: Anchor, anchoring, Cruising Culture, Education, Seamanship
L,G,&M asks a couple of questions, in the �It�s all about the experience, and less about the fluff,� department, and the phrase "harrowing future"...
a neo-luddites thought process on a needful purchase...
| 0 comments |Labels: Boat Systems, Navigation, Needful stuff
On the subject of a fair living wages, a depressing trend in modern education, and just business as usual...We live in wonderful times in some ways...For...
In the "Don't need to show you no stinking pointy front" department...
| 0 comments |Labels: Boatbuilding, Media, Schooner, Scow
Just frelling depressing, a good point, and Badtux talks fairness...A serious scow project. SCOWTRAILER from Martha's Vineyard Productions on Vimeo.More...
You could say I'm not a happy camper today...
| 0 comments |Labels: anchoring, Cruising Culture, Cruising grounds, IMPORTANT
Something I found worthwhile, an interesting riff on intelligence, and a truly great post from Antonio Dias...Last night I saw that the French powers-that-be...
I heard the news today...
| 0 comments |A sorta/kinda about face, an interesting way to put away savings, and some simple answers worth thinking about...Florence Arthaud 1957-2015Bummer...Listening...
Yeah, this boat would certainly work for me...
| 0 comments |Labels: Balanced Lug, Sailboat design, Schooner, Scow, Short list
Why I can't vote for the President of the US of A, some needful reading, and the death throes of anchoring in the sunshine state...So, a while back I...
Something worth watching...
| 0 comments |Labels: Interesting, Media, Surf.
Not exactly surprising this idiocy is happening in Florida, it might be time to reconsider the needfullness of a watermaker aboard and is this just might...
A good project...
| 0 comments |...That could use a little support. More information on this R2AK campaign can be found he...
Is this the death knell of pointy fronts?
| 0 comments |Labels: Sailboat design, Scow
A good read on ethics/morality (yes, there is a difference), about that "discriminatory intent�, and an obviously compassionate politician's heartfelt...
In the "Yep I got your emails" department...
| 0 comments |Labels: Catamarans, Multihulls, Sailboat design
On the price of some drugs, a rather non-uplifting story, and about the real cost of fossil fuels...When I mentioned Wharram yesterday I knew it would...
Because it's you and not the boat...
| 0 comments |Labels: Cruising.Culture, Sailboat design
Banging head against the bulkhead, the stupid it burns, and I'd very much like to shake this person's hand...The other day I overheard someone tell somebody...
On what I expect is the only Jessie Cooper for sale in Medicine Hat...
| 0 comments |Labels: Boat buying, Boatbuilding, Bolger, Junk Rig, Sailboat design, Sharpie
I'll admit I find the word �unprecedented� kinda scary these days, interesting times, and Sarah Palin in a tie...I noticed that there's a Bolger Jessie...
sheet to tiller self-steering...
| 0 comments |Labels: Boat Systems, Good stuff, Self Steering, Things that work
Someone we should be paying attention to, an interesting read, and a little bit of history that explains a lot...A guy making a lot of sense.Listening...
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