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The Resourceful Sailor – The Book!

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 your bookshelf. Whether you are tied to the dock or sailing offshore, it will get you thinking differently about boat modifications or repairs.

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Marlinspike, The Dock Life, The Resourceful Sailor Series, The Salish Sea Tags: book, compilation, do it yourself, essays, Flicka 20, Latitude 38, Lectronic Latitude, Pacific Seacraft, paperback, port townsend, sailboat, sailing, Sampaguita, small craft advisor, the resourceful sailor, The Resourceful Sailor Series

Warping and Reading – Flicka 20s, a Thunderbird, and a 32-foot ketch

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… Read More

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