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SCA – The Resourceful Sailor: Skyed Halyard Retrieval Made Easy

Thanks, again, to Josh C. @ Small Craft Advisor and all those sailors that subscribe to SCA’s Substack and help make this all possible. October 15, 2026 they re-published The Resourceful Sailor: Skyed Halyard Retrieval Made Easy. It documents a technique I used to retrieve a skyed halyards on Sampaguita. Maybe it will give the reader some ideas of how to mange their own. Thanks for stopping by. Click HERE to be… Read More

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, Life in 240 Inches, Marlinspike, The Dock Life, The Resourceful Sailor Series, Video Tags: chase line, Flicka 20, halyard, line, Mast, masthead, Pacific Seacraft, port townsend, sailboat, sailing, Sampaguita, skyed, small craft advisor, snap shackle

The Gennaker Tack, Part 2

Part 2 of the two-part article is now available on Latitude 38‘s electronic version of their magazine ‘Lectronic Latitude. Thanks again to Tim Henry for publishing it. Click on the logo below to check it out. If you missed Part 1, not to worry, there is a link available for you to check it out when you click through. If you like it, please let them know. Thank you.

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, The Dock Life, The Resourceful Sailor Series Tags: 'Lectronic, Article, bronze, chain splice, cranze, Flicka 20, Gennaker, gybe, iron, Latitude, Latitude 38, Part 2, Publish, Resourceful, sailboat, Sailor, Sampaguita, Series, snap, snap shackle, sock, soft shackle, Spinnaker, The Gennaker tack, Tim Henry

The Gennaker Tack, Part 1

Hi, folks. I have an article published on Latitude 38‘s electronic version of their magazine ‘Lectronic Latitude. Special thanks to Tim Henry for giving it a go. Click on the logo below to check it out. If you like it, please let them know. Thanks.

Category: Culture, Gear & Maintenance, The Dock Life, The Resourceful Sailor Series Tags: Article, bronze, chain splice, cranze, Flicka 20, Gennaker, gybe, iron, Latitude, Latitude 38, Lectronic Latitude, prt 1, published, sailboat, Sampaguita, snap shackle, sock, TACK, The Gennaker tack