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Why I Bought a Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20

Sampaguita Sailing up Jervis Inlet People who originally ordered a Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20 could get a new, well built, high-end, blue water capable cruiser with or without big boat amenities....

Category: Culture, Life in 240 Inches, The Dock Life Tags: blue water, Bluewater, bristol channel cutter, Buying, cockpit sole, dana 24, Flicka 20, Flicka20, hawaii, inboard, John Hazen, john vigor, liveABOARD, outboard, Pacific Seacraft, port jervis, port townsend, sailboat, sailing, Sampaguita, Twenty Small Sailboats, Vancouver Island, westsail, Windward Pilgrim

Lowering the Mast on a Flicka 20

It’s time to do some work on the Sampaguita, starting with the mast. I had the mast down in 2014 for some minor work, but there will be a bit more...

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, The Dock Life Tags: block and tackle, bruce bingham, crutch, Dock, fenders, Flicka 20, Gin pole, Lowering, Mast, tabernacle, The Sailor's Sketchbook

Sailing Naima in New York Harbor

I connected with an old friend from New York and he sent me these photos from 2008. We were out on New York Harbor in a Charles Whitholtz Departure 35 named...

Category: Culture Tags: Circle Line, Departure 35, Naima, New York City, New York Harbor, sailboat, sailing, Sea Time, Statue of Liberty

June on the Hook – Day 15 – Recreation Day in False Creek, Vancouver

In the morning I went for a paddle in the kayak out to English Bay. I ate a snack, window shopped at the Maritime Museum and checked out the boats tenuously...

Category: Culture, June on the Hook 2017, Overnight Trips Tags: aire, anchoring, Canada, Danforth, english bay, false creek, Flicka 20 sailboat, Gabriola Island, google earth, granville island, kayak, live aboard, liveABOARD, public market, sailboat, satellite, stamps landing, Vancouver, yamaha outboard

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Sailing With Josh

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