When I met my wife, she told me that she had been doing restoration work on the tall ship Wavertree down at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan....
Cavalier... You must be doing a good job if you're raising a son by yourself and still have time to even think about sailing. Years ago in my...
Cavalier, might I be bold enough to suggest you read James Wharram's book, "Two Girls, Two Catamarans" as a primer for the kind of relation-ship I...
I've met a lot of people who've built boats or fixed boats up and then lived on or cruised for extended periods on them. Some were batchelors...
Building can be perhaps the most satisfying approach of all. However, it's also the most costly and time consuming, and can easily wreck a...
Duuude, it was not a serious comment, just a reply on the commercial Farrier tri. I mentioned the Webster family as they were home builders who...
So nobody builds their own tris anymore in NZ? About 20 years while in San Francisco on business I met the Webster family in Sauslito. They were...
Yeah, I've seen that web site before. I think he's an industrial designer doing a lot of cool design stuff. Carbon fiber is nice, but still very...
Landlubber - I ride a recumbent trike as well as sail, and there's a local recumbent club called "MARS" (Metro Area Recumbent Society) that has a...
My oldest and best male friend owned a Piver 25 (maybe stretched to 27) when I had my 25' Searunner. It sailed fine, though he wasn't the best...
Vee hulls I've had the pleasure of sailing on a Wharram up by Toronto, a 40'er I think. The owner/builder had sailed down to the Carib with his...
I eventually had some rot problems with my Searunner 31. One place was around the A-Frame bulkheads by the cabin sides, another was due to some...
SeaRunners and Tri-Stars I've owned two Searunners, a 25 and a 31, and I've been on and sailed on some Tri-Stars from Ed Horstman. Years back Ed...
