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How clever is this? VERY, very clever.
I saw this at Delta Marine Service — they'd carefully sealed off the bottom of this boat with plastic before attacking the anti-fouling and then made a nifty little door, with a zipper just like a tent! Good job.
There’s always someone out there that’s cooler than you. Like sailors. You’ll never be as cool as a sailor. Here are 10 everyday things they’d kick your ass at without even trying.
Twenty Eight Feet: life on a little wooden boat
I’m not a soccer fan, but I get it — unlike American Football — and I enjoyed watching some of the action on TV. Thank goodness F.I.F.A banned those dreadful vuvuzelas during the World Cup in Brazil.
Ah, Brazil, where the nuts come from andwhere we made landfall 5 years ago after crossing the mad Atlantic. We sailed to Salvador da Bahia, joined the carnival for a few days, filled up with diesel and then sailed across the Bahia to Morro de Sao Paulo. We anchored in the lee of the tiny island and took shelter for a few days before we started our journey north. Our first night back at sea was slow and tedious as we pushed hard against a fierce current hardly making any headway. It was like trying to score against a great line of defenders. We tacked east and west and back again, all night, only to find ourselves right back on the centre mark. 3 days later, we saw a gap and headed the boat into Recife. Our next fixture was Fortelza and a marina just around the corner of the big bulge of South America!
It was our last stop before tackling the Caribbean.
We cast off those lines and left Brazil standing still in our wake laden down with diesel. 240 litres In the big tank, 60 litres in the day tank and 80 litres in cans on the deck. Diesel and wind, nothing could stop us. We were coached to stay well clear of the Amazon Delta and to head due north. We did and 11 days later we reached Trinidad.
What about the doldrums? I hear you saying.
Doldrums? What doldrums? We never found the doldrums.
We crossed the imaginary line with 35 knots of wind in the sails and never used one drop of all that diesel. Not a single drop.
Diesel 0 Wind 35
The water bubbles with violence, curtains of steam rising off its surface. There is a brief eruption upward when I throw in the handful of salt. Every time, when boiling vegetables or pasta, my mind drifts out to the sea. Not to the friendly lapping shores of summer, but to its center. To darkness and midnight. To winter and distress. The wreckage of ships, torn board from board by ancient strengths and angers. My mind turns to peril. The sea’s never-still and roiling core, where waves – travelling thousands of miles – break atop each other in ancient collisions. Where scaled monsters, unknown to us, live blind at a depth we can’t conceive. The water rises and hisses in the pot, echoing against the metal, irritated for one instant before settling, changed, but calm again. [Painting: Ships Running Around in a Storm by Ludolf Backhuizen, 1690]
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Got this idea from the most recent issue of classic boat magazine. I am terrible at looking after brushes. That is about to change! After varnishing I give the brush a rinse in a separate container of white spirit before leaving it in the paraffin above. The brush is taped into a hole in the lid which keeps it from touching the bottom. The lid clips on so the paraffin can’t evaporate. Before using the brush again it gets another rinse in white spirit. The lid also catches any varnish that tries to run down the handle. No more sticky fingers!!
Thanks for sharing Tim !
Just stumbled across this blog!
The clock is ticking.
The sun is coming closer.
Soon, we'll be back on the water.
… and then there were those items that I just could not be squirrelled away on a boat. Damn.
It's all about quality. Cars and boats.
Grand Banks Classics.. How could anyone not love the timeless design of these beautiful boats. They are perfect for the Pacific Northwest, and would be equally perfect for the Sea of Cortez or Phang Nga Bay in Thailand. And yes, I do have my eye on a few of them.
We LOVE them !
Winter is coming Icesailing hollandaise
Nobody here gets sea-sick!
The pretty nice harbour of Cowichan Bay.
I’ll Be Hanging Around At The End Of A Different Line This Weekend
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I have been wanting to post about this for a while now! Some photos from this blog are being used to illustrate Lodestar Books re-issue of Conor O’Brien’s 1941 book; Sea Boats, Oars and Sails. Conor O’Brien is a famous Irish gun runner, circumnavigator and all round salt. Check out the preview here: http://www.lodestarbooks.com/?wpsc-product=sea-boats-oars-and-sails. And don’t forget to order it now for the Sail & Oar enthusiast in your life!
Dear Santa — see above blog post.
