This is the second part of a two-part mini-series of The Resourceful Sailor and Murrelet. This one is like the title says, The Resourceful Sailor: Stepping a Small Sailboat Mast Using a Tripod. Thank you to Josh and Small Craft Advisor for republishing it on August 18, 2025, just in time for the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.
It was originally published on August 15, 2025, on ‘Lectronic Latitude.
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Murrelet is a very endearing little boat. I was fortunate enough to help her owner, Bertram, step and unstep her mast this summer. It is accompanied by a different video approach than past Resourceful Sailor pieces. It is about using a tripod to step Murrelet‘s mast in the launch ramp parking lot.
Thank you to Monica and ‘Lectronic Latitude for publishing The Resourceful Sailor: Stepping a Small Boat Mast With a Tripod on August 15, 2025.
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In case you missed it in ‘Lectronic Latitude, here it is in Small Craft Advisor.
Thanks to Sugar Flanagan from Alcyone, Erik Brown from Left Coast Charters, and Bertram Levy from the neighborhood for helping make this happen. And thanks to Josh and Small Craft Advisor for republishing it. It is a charming story of a big boat helping a small boat remove its mast in Port Townsend. One classic and one neo-classic, both are well-cared-for wooden boats and pleasant to look at. But it’s not just eye candy, it’s educational too.
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Thanks to Sugar Flanagan from Alcyone, Erik Brown from Left Coast Charters, and Bertram Levy from the neighborhood for helping make this happen. And thanks to Monica and ‘Lectronic Latitude for ACTUALLY making this happen. It is a charming story of a big boat helping a small boat remove its mast in Port Townsend. One classic and one neo-classic, both are well-cared-for wooden boats and pleasant to look at. But it’s not just eye candy, it’s educational too.
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Thanks to Josh and Small Craft Advisor for republishing, The Resourceful Sailor Reinstalls a Classic Electronic Autopilot, on July, 30, 2025.
It’s the story of reviving an 80’s classic autopilot for Sampaguita, a 1985 Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20.
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This installment of The Resourceful Sailor first appeared in ‘Lectronic Latitude on July 17, 2023.
SCA, short for Small Craft Advisor, has republished The Resourceful Sailor Series installment, The Resourceful Sailor Asks, “What’s That Bracket Racket?” on July 7, 2025. Thanks to Josh and crew.
It’s about replacing an aging outboard bracket on Sampaguita, a 1985 Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20. This installment of The Resourceful Sailor first appeared in ‘Lectronic Latitude in two parts on June 14 and June 17, 2019.
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Thank you to Joe Cline and the sailing magazine, 48° North, for publishing A Flicka 20’s Pacific Odyssey, Sampaguita‘s Shakedown Around Vancouver Island, in their July 2025 issue.
It’s a suss of some takeaways while working out the kinks before I “turned left” in 2023 and headed south to Mexico and the Marquesas.
You can set up a subscription for 48° North HERE, or get a fresh, free copy at participating venues.
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What? Honest, it’s a legit nautical term. Hawsehole, I mean. Thanks to Monica and ‘Lectronic Latitude and Latitude 38 for keeping the dream alive. Or not waking me up.
On June 30, 2025, they published The Resourceful Sailor Asks: “Will You Shut Your Hawsehole?”, an installment about keeping water out of the boat. In particular, from the hole where the anchor rode goes down below.
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Small Craft Advisor has continued to support The Resourceful Sailor with the publishing of Tales from the Northwest Passage: The Resourceful Sailor and Arctic Bricolage, Part One on Jun 25, 2025. This installment first appeared in ‘Lectronic Latitude.
It discusses a few resourceful antics applied during Breskell‘s 2019 transit of the Northwest Passage
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I’m grateful to Small Craft Advisor’s publishing of this installment of The Resourceful Sailor. It first appeared in ‘Lectronic Latitude on Jan. 8, 2021. It is about working on the oval bronze portlights found on the mid-80’s era Pacific Seacraft boats.
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