Being run down
We were recently sailing near Split Crotia and while keeping watch noticed a big (45') power vessel on the plane astern. weather was clear and sunny with about a 3' swell and 15 knot breeze. About 2...
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Life aboard a Little Harbor 44
In a shameless act of theft, I am using Ajax’s format and applying it to my own journey. I am now, on paper at least, the owner of a 1983 Little Harbor 44. Hull #2 of 15, to be precise. Hull #1 was Ted...
View ArticleBooked a French Riviera charter. Tell me everything I need to know.
I just signed a contract to charter a Bali 4.3 in France next summer, bareboat. What do I need to know? I have bareboat chartered a Lagoon 42 before but in the USVIs. Some of the topics I need to know:...
View ArticleShow your boat not sailing
Since I don't have a drone or friends on boats with cameras, I figured I'd start a thread for those poor souls who're boat-proud but similarly deprived. Here's ours in full lazy family cruising mode at...
View ArticleCoolboats to admire
I've been following the Uglyboat Admiration Society Hang Out and have found that a number of cool boats end up on this thread - by accident or design (so to speak). I thought it might be time to start...
View ArticleShould I Buy a Beneteau Oceanis 38.1?
Hi! I retired recently and having just spent a month and half living aboard my current boat, I realize that I'm at an age and time in my life that I want a cruising boat with more space, accommodations...
View ArticleThinking about older boats which aren’t bollocks.
I wrote some dumb shit a few years ago, it’s been a long hard road of reading about physics and poking around a multitude of boats to deprogram myself from the cult of cheap shite old boats, accept...
View ArticleHeat exchanger - MD2030 - slow loss of engine coollant
Beforte clicking on the ebay for a replacement core.... The fresh water side of my engine has been in increasing need of topping up over the past month or so maybe half a pint of water/anti-freeze per...
View ArticleSailing the South Pacific
I finally did it. 2.5 years after buying Sea Change, a 1989 Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34, hull number 124, in Panamá, after getting chased out by COVID shutdown and having shoulder cuff surgery, and...
View ArticleGetting serious about emergency rudder
So I have a lot of stuff to get more serious about. One thing is the emergency or backup rudder. The rudder on my boat (Concordia 47) is probably very strong. I have the receipt from when the PO...
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