
Thanks to Josh and Small Craft Advisor for re-publishing A Traveler’s Story, a Resourceful Sailor installment about rebuilding a Flicka 20’s vintage Schaefer round-bar traveler. Thanks to Zephyrwerks in Port Townsend...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, The Resourceful Sailor Series, The Salish Sea, Video, Voyage 2024 Tags: Flicka 20, Latitude 38, Lectronic Latitude, Pacific Seacraft, port townsend, round bar, sailboat, sailing, Sampaguita, schaefer, sheaves, small craft advisor, traveler, wilcox-crittenden, zephyrwerks
I thought it would be fun to overlay the three Flicka 20 Pacific Voyages that I know about. Sampaguita, captained and crewed by myself, left Port Townsend, WA on August 22,...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, Voyage 2024 Tags: charles s. dewell, cruising, Flicka 20, french polybesia, google earth, hawaii, john hazen jr., kawabunga, marqusas, Mexico, pacific sailing, Pacific Seacraft, port townsend, Sampaguita, san diego sailboat, society islands, south sea, tahiti, Windward Pilgrim
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...
Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Resourceful Sailor Series, The Salish Sea, Video Tags: Boat Haven, book, Charles Dewell, Corvo, Dwight Long, Flicka 20, Idle Hour, kawabunga, Kawabunga's South Sea Adventure, Lectronic Latitude, library, Pacific Seacraft, port townsend, sailboat, sailing, Sampaguita, Seven Seas, Thunderbird, warp, warped, warping
The presentation, A Flicka 20’s Pacific Odyssey, commenced on March 12, 2025 at the Port Townsend Sailing Association clubhouse in Port Townsend. Thank you to everyone who made it out. I...
Thanks to Josh and Small Craft Advisor for picking up The Resourceful Sailor. This was a special installment based on nostalgia and déjà vu, harkening back to the Different Drummer days. Click...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Overnight Trips, The Resourceful Sailor Series, The Salish Sea Tags: aluminum, anchoring, Canada, Canoe, deja vu, Flicka 20, gloves, grumman, kayak, Pacific Seacraft, paddle, sailboat, Sampaguita, small craft advisor, square sail, the resourceful sailor, Vancouver Island
Thank you ‘Lectronic Latitude and Latitude 38 for publishing The Resourceful Sailor Makes a Strong Point on March 10, 2025. Monica and John have been steadfast supporters of The Resourceful Sailor...
If you are a Small Craft Advisor fan, you’ll be excited to know The Resourceful Sailor now publishes a column with them. Thanks to Josh and SCA for bringing me into...
Thanks to Josh and Small Craft Advisor for picking up The Resourceful Sailor. They republished “Is it Varnish or Vanish?” on Feb. 27, 2025. Do you varnish, paint, oil, or leave...
This is the last in this five-part series. I have been sorting through some archival footage from my 2019 transit of the Northwest Passage aboard Oliver Huin’s Breskell. Maybe this will...
Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Marlinspike, Overnight Trips, The Dock Life, The Northwest Passage, ThreeSheets, Video Tags: Alaska, Anchor, anchorage, Arctic, Beaufort Sea, Breskell, Cambridge Bay, Canada, dolphin and union strait, golf, hudson bay, lady of lourdes, northwest territory, Nunavut, outpost, pingo, port townsend, read island, the resourceful sailor, trading, tuktoyakyuk, victoria island
Subscribe here for more The Resourceful Sailor Asks “Does Size Matter?” Thank you to Josh Colvin and Small Craft Advisor for publishing a Resourceful Sailor piece about considerations of choosing what boat...
Category: 2023 Voyage, Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Overnight Trips, The Resourceful Sailor Series, Voyage 2024 Tags: Canoe, columbia 26, dana 24, Dana Point, Flicka 20, grumman, odyssey, Pacific Seacraft, port townsend, Sampaguita, Small boats, small craft advisor, the resourceful sailor, Westsail 32
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