I like it, though I think the peculiarities will make this a very expensive option...
Sven Sven is certainly one of the most experienced sailors of very small craft on ocean voyages. He knows if anyone does what he is getting into....
Bolgers Wisp.....about 20 odd feet long narrow sailing canoe....two people sleep end to end....p'haps 100 lbs,,,
I won't comment on Yrvinds boat. Matt Layden has been building and sailing his microcruisers for a lot of years. A number of them are equipped...
Jay Benford understands very well the fundamental needs for his designs to be seaworthy. The have good watertight integrity, good initial...
I have a very old (1934) power boat 45 feet long 19.5 tons displacement powered by a 1955 vintage Cummins diesel. We cruise at slightly better...
We have made some progress over the last while in understanding what happens to a boat at sea. Begining with the '79 Fastnet race and continuing...
Where did the 11 foot seas come from? In my experience 20 and 30 foot seas are reasonably common in a open sea gale. Flicka's are fat enough they...
You might want to look at the Racing Dhows off Abu Dhabi, and Dubai to see how they do it. You might also want to look into some of the Columbus...
This is one of the Egret versions, not sure who designed this one. The rig more or less resembles my Meadowlark with the two sails pretty much the...
Here is another perspective; About a dozen years ago I was on the East coast of India, near Paradip. The local inshore fishing vessels were...
I have used a latine rig some...many years ago. After being blown across the lake one time, I reallized I needed to be able to reef. Mine was a...
Those shallow places that are blessed with a good fetch are pretty particular. Western Lake Eire and Lake St Clair and Saginaw Bay in Lake Huron,...
I have been away for a while, and have partially caught up. If I remember the conversation before, tIt was noted the tool making of the Clovis...
Near Coastal sailing, even short-hop offshore passages say a few hundred miles, allow the crew to pick a weather window and be reasonably safe and...
My uncle sailed 20,000 offshore miles before he got his first real gale in the Tasman sea, in his case in a 20 ton Colin Archer. He never...
Some very good points here. If one studies the pilot charts, as I have in decades past you can realize that in most tropical and semitropical...
There is evidence the Basques were fishing around Newfoundland prior to to "discovery" by Cabot.......it was all pretty secret commercial, so no...
What is required in the local regulatory requirements for a passenger carrying boat? I know Dubai have some charming old wooden boats crossing the...
The latest research of the Clovis people......These people were identified decades ago by the particular way they napped flint for arrowheads and...
