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The Resourceful Sailor Book Review – Nautical Northwest Magazine

A special thank you to Norris Comer and Todd Feinroth for reading and reviewing The Resourceful Sailor: 45 Resourceful Essays in the May/June 2026 issue of Nautical Northwest Magazine. It was very kind of them. If you are unaware, Nautical Northwest Magazine is a new publication available in print and online. As you can imagine, it focuses on the many facets of the Pacific Northwest maritime scene. Click HERE to be directed… Read More

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Marlinspike, The Dock Life, The Resourceful Sailor Series Tags: book, Canada, Flicka 20, Latitude 38, Lectronic Latitude, macguyver, nautical northwest, Pacific Seacraft, port townsend, review, sailboat, sailing, Sampaguita, small craft advisor, the resourceful sailor, Vancouver Island

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