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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. Check out some of the stories after you finish The Resourceful Sailor’s installment. Or submit one of your own. CLICK HERE to be directed to the Small Craft Advisor article. Thanks for stopping by.
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 my voyage aboard Sampaguita, a 1985 Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20. The title sets the tale up, so I won’t spoil any further. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for stopping by.
Check out The Resourceful Sailor on Small Craft Advisor on September 6, 2025, where I talk about one of my favorite tools in The Resourceful Sailor Asks, “What Is Your Favorite Tool and Why?” Feel free to let us know what your fave is. There is no wrong answer! Click the images below to be directed to the SCA website and the article.
A photo of a salty geezer and a salty boat just turned up. This is upon arrival in Port Angeles after 60 days at sea from the Marquesas, And another installment of The Resourceful Sailor hit the internet on Sept. 5, 2025, at ‘Lectronic Latitude, The Resourceful Sailor Configures a Spinnaker Pole Holder. Thanks to Monica and Latitude 38 for the continued support. This one is about storing a spinnaker pole on… Read More
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. Click Here > > The Resourceful Sailor Reinstalls a Classic Electronic Autopilot 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. Click HERE to be directed to… Read More
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…. Read More
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. Click HERE to be directed to the… Read More
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. Click the logo below to be directed to the article.
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. Click the image below to see the video:
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