Great story Will, I too understand using a smart phone to get around, yet one must be able to navigate without electronics too. It builds...
These images and text help clear up some facts about ancient navigation... It's truly amazing how many different systems where developed that all...
Fair winds and good luck with your dream list John... Keep Shunting, Balkan Shipyards
I truly enjoyed the vids, amazing instrument and guy... The Arabs had some glorious maritime days. Except for being great navigators they paved...
Great images!! thanks. My NeckTop is overloaded at the moment, working long days roofing away making money to build a boat... Yet I find these...
My blocks connect to the boat with carabiners, so if there's a cam cleat on the double block, the whole block gets unhooked from deck, I pull the...
Shunting Proas don't have a fixed stern. Rudders must be raised or moved after every shunt. This VIDEO explains pros and cons of the various...
Happy You like the Balkan Style.... Catamarans are more expensive, harder to build, weaker or heavily loaded, since mast is located between the...
Very interesting Will, I will google it and figure it out soon enough... Thanks! Power boats frighten me, I always imagine something going wrong...
That time will come, since nothing lasts forever... The true problem is that there are sailors that can't navigate. The second problem is that...
NAVIGATING on PAPER people, it's a GREAT PLEASURE!!! An introduction to NAVIGATION Balkan Style... Keep Shunting, Balkan Shipyards [MEDIA]
As a teenager I started cruising on a Tri, I have a soft spot for them... Then I fell in love with Mono's then Wharrams... Then Proas... I'm...
Well put, unfortunately your words have come to be the lost factor of sailing... The modern sailor will turn his engine on, in anything under a...
Yes, looking good, but more photos will look better.... I like cats, though Proas fit my pocket better, more cruiser for less cash. the peoples...
No body said you were rich. I just think you should keep your personal opinion about others to your self. especially the fact that "you suspect",...
Just Love it... Ol Redreuben is lost.... What did he do for the SHUNTING world? As far I know, nothing!!! Here, in east Europe where Balkan...
It's possible but like you said takes experience. tacking is surely the easier way, yet shunters offer more for less... Since planet earth seems...
Quality reply thanks. Shunters are for open water, if shunting up a narrow channel is the problem, then engines solve that problem. Out at sea,...
A tacker will cost double and will take twice the labour to build. Shunters are the most boat for the money, these are facts you can't argue with....
PROA Black Sea SAILING, 2nd Episode. Off ROAD SHUNTING and ROUGH sailing, FREESTYLE Cruising and FUN for nothing. SHUNTERS are amazing, and the...
