Sailing With Josh

Small Craft Advisor has published The Resourceful Sailor Says GPS Is Not Guaranteed Positioning System on March 6, 2026. An unsolved mystery of when electronics do not work they way they...

The Resourceful Sailor: 45 Resourceful Essays is now available for purchase on Amazon! Collected together in one paperback volume, you’ll want to have this compilation of The Resourceful Sailor Series on...

Small Craft Advisor has published The Resourceful Sailor Weaves a Lee Net on February 20, 2026, on their Substack forum. Thank you to Josh Colvin and the gang. I was surprised...

Here’s a classic (can I say that?) called “Life in 240 Inches.” It first appeared in 48 North magazine in the spring of 2019 and was re-published by Small Craft Advisor...

Welcome to 2026, and The Resourceful Sailor sails on. Thanks to Monica, Latitude 38, and ‘Lectronic Latitude for publishing a new installment on January 23, 2026. It’s about an emergency portable...

Port Townsend Rigging helped Sampaguita, and I refit her mast. They came up with this elegant solution to replace the tips on the mast’s spreaders and allowed me the facilities and...

The good people at ‘Lectronic Latitude name-dropped me on a recent sustainable sailing article. I was referenced regarding creative innovations, which feels pretty good. The article is not about The Resourceful...

“You gotta eat.” Thank you to Small Craft Advisor, Josh, and the subscribers for supporting The Resourceful Sailor and publishing The Resourceful Sailor: One Pan to Cook Them All!. It’s a...

Thank you again, Small Craft Advisor Magazine, for re-publishing The Resourceful Sailor Warps a Boat Around at the Dock on October 13, 2025. Also, this October is spooky sailing story month....

Kaoha Nui, A big thanks to Joe and 48˚ North magazine for publishing Cruisers Sharing Seafood – Part of the Natural Order? in their October 2025 edition. It’s a story from...