I just published two slow-moving videos about warping boats at the dock on Youtube. One was a re-edit of a previously published video of Sampaguita, a 1985 Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20 with a full keel, which I recently discovered had some annoying glitches. I removed the major ones and preserved what I could. The second video is recent and of Corvo, a Thunderbird sailboat, a much lighter boat with a fin keel for a more glitch-free example.

At my Port Townsend presentation of A Flicka 20’s Pacific Odyssey, I was loaned a book by a friend and fellow Flicka alumnus, Kirk, which I have long known about, but just hadn’t come across, called Kawabunga’s South Sea Adventure by Charles S. Dewell. I dare say it is the most famous book about a Flicka 20 voyage so maybe ironic I haven’t read it yet. It sports the original paper cover, so we know it is dear to Kirk. It’s in the queue.

Another book recommended to me by Jack, also an attendee of the presentation, and found in the maritime section of the Port Townsend Public Library is Seven Seas on a Shoestring: Sailing All Seas in the Idle Hour by Dwight Long. I’m excited to both hold this 1939 first-edition copy in my hands and read it. Also in the queue.