Check out the link below as Grant and Noel on Mundial, a Downeaster 38, spot Sampaguita and me as we approach the anchorage in Bahia San Juanico on Baja California Sur’s Pacific coast. This is a short clip from Episode 55 on their YouTube channel.
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Small Craft Advisor has re-published The Resourceful Sailor installment, Outboard Thermostats: The Resourceful Sailor has an Open and Closed Case on May 16, 2025. And thanks to Josh Colvin for doing so. The article is about testing and replacing an outboard thermostat.
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On May 14, 2025, The Resourceful Sailor made his podcast debut. Thanks to Monica and John at the Latitude 38 Good Jibes Podcast and ‘Lectronic Latitude for making this happen.
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Thank you so much to Monica and ‘Lectronic Latitude for publishing The Resourceful Sailor Makes a Caulk-Trimming Tool on May 7, 2025. This installment finds me improvising a tool for trimming excess caulk after a teak deck seam repair. It’s simple. It’s ridiculous. It’s effective.
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The Small Craft Advisor has republished The Resourceful Sailor Goes Baggywrinkle on May 2nd, 2025. Special thanks to Josh Colvin. If you always wondered what a baggywrinkle were, this might clear it up, or maybe, create more questions. You should read it and find out. Thanks for giving it a go.
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Thank you to Josh at Small Craft Advisor for republishing The Resourceful Sailor Performs Sail Surgery. This is about a DIY sail repair of the 80% jib’s leech line. Remember, it’s not a sail repair if you haven’t stabbed yourself with the needle!
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No, The Resourceful Sailor did not run off and join the circus. The circus came to him. Thanks to Monica and ‘Lectronic Latitude for keeping The Resourceful Sailor alive. This latest installment is about how I used and stowed a folding bike when cruising the Pacific Northwest in Sampaguita. It was published on Mar. 31, 2025.
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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 for their help with the sheaves.
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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, 2023, and returned to Port Townsend, WA on July 8, 2024. We sailed down the North American West Coast to La Paz, Mexico, and then to the Marquesas. From the Marquesas, we sailed non-stop to Port Townsend, WA via Hawaii.
Kawabunga!, captained by Charles S. Dewell and sometimes crewed by his wife Margaret, left San Diego, CA on May 14, 1995, and ended at Marina Del Ray, CA on June 22, 1996. They sailed to the Marquesas, the Society Islands, Hawaii, and back to Southern California and Marina Del Ray. I roughly transcribed the route from Charles’ book, Kawabunga’s South Sea Adventure.
John Hazen, Jr. bought Windward Pilgrim in Hawaii and sailed first to Tahiti, where they were knocked down along the way. From Tahiti, they sailed back to Hawaii and eventually on to Port Townsend, WA. I don’t know the exact dates, but I believe it was the mid-90s. John told me his story before I even bought Sampaguita. The route I transcribed follows what I would expect his route could have been. The only details I know are the start and end points of each leg.
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.
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