regarding that frozen concoction...

Well worth a read/watch, just another day in the outsourcing game, and an apt question we should all be asking...

I just realized that today happens to be National Margarita Day... Not that folks on boats actually need much of an excuse to indulge in excessive recreational debauchery of the alcohol-related sort but, if you're so inclined, today you have a reason.

Listening to a variety of artists cover Fleetwood Mac's Tusk

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A really good example of thinking outside the box...

Unintended environmental consequences, not exactly a surprise, and a "top priority" we'd be a lot better off without...

The other day rowing in to do some shopping I noticed that a boat that had anchored near us was a Reuel Parker design. This one as it happens...

Like all of Reuel's designs there is a lot interesting about it but the most exceptional thing in my view is what Parker has done with the head. It's in the cockpit.

Sort of a minimal little outhouse/shower nestled in the starboard corner of the cockpit right behind the helm. See it?

The logic of such an installation makes all kinds of sense and, as most cruisers tend to shower in the cockpit anyway, I'm amazed that no one has actually done this before.

Listening to the Ajax Diner Book Club podcast

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a better cockpit shower...

This is really interesting, a hotel chain to avoid, and big (slimy murdering greedheads) tobacco is perturbed...

Over the years we've used a succession of cheap plastic pump-up pesticide sprayers for our cockpit shower, They used to work finestkind.

Not so much anymore as the spray heads don't last and the cost of the part you need to fix tends to cost about what an entire unit goes for. This does not make for happy camper mode...

Duckworks has had a sprayer for awhile that I've had my eye on. The downside is that it looked like the real deal online but the only way to know for sure is to stump up some money ($40!!!) and have one shipped down.

So I did...

The good news it's seriously better built and heavier industrial duty than the $20 Ace hardware variety we're all used to. Better yet it's black so it will heat up water a bit and be far less susceptible to becoming an algae garden.

Should have bought two...

Listening to a pretty good mixtape

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ESP moving right along...

Today's installment in the "the beatings will continue as soon as I've turned off my dashcam" files, worth reading, and some lost Ken Russell photography...

Some more from the Eco Sailing Project.



Listening to Jethro Tull

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an interesting project...

What happens whenever Tucker (he really should have been a film producer) Carlson's lips move, a lot of money spent unwisely, and a must read about why we need to save the USPS...

A scow project I'll be keeping my eye on...

Listening to Larkin Poe



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Just some guys taking a plywood boat out for a spin...

A bit of interesting energy news, some sense being made, and if only government would get with the �no assholes, no bozos� program...

Some pretty cool contreplaqu�.


RM 1070, 100 milles en hiver by voile-magazine

Listening to the late great Don Covay

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a boat with some history...

Dave Mason talking, some serious Cheap Trick axe goodness, and a very cool doubleneck uke (because somedays you just need a break from the depressing stuff)...

I saw that Webb Chiles' old boat was for sale the other day and at a pretty awesome price as well. Wouldn't need a lot to get her ready to cruise off into the sunset either.

Now, what was that you were saying about not being able to afford to go cruising?

Listening to Benny C & the Associates

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