Continuing a discussion of going through the boat twice a year to restock, renew, clean, and make sure all is right. Well worth the effort!
Monday Minute - Benefit Party to Help Hurricane Victims
A special hurricane relief event is scheduled for the first day of the sailboat show in Annapolis. For those who donate $75 or more to several relief organizations, the Donor Appreciation Party will be held at the close of the show, with free food and drinks. The donations will go directly to relief efforts in the BVIs.
What's Life Without A Little Adventure
Scott and Mary Flanders begin a new journey, a new path, with a new design concept for a cruising ocean motorboat. This begins a series of posts that will follow the philosophy behind the design spiral, the construction, and all that will follow....
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Looking Good Again!
Monday Minute - An Admiral's Secret to Running A Ship
The Recovering Warrior Sailing Regatta took place this weekend in Annapolis. It takes disabled military out for a day of sailboat racing with midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy, put on by the USNA, National Sailing Hall of Fame, and Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating (CRAB).
I got a chance to spend time with Admiral Phil Cullom, who shared his approach to commanding a Navy destroyer.
Stay Safe and Get Off The Boat
Monday Minute - Hurricanes and Cyclone Pits
The Value of Rituals - Part 1
Monday Minute - A Damn Fine Measure of Engine Durability
When Is Disruptive Innovation Coming to Cruising?
Every so often something upsets the apple cart and created a new market for a product or service. It is called Disruptive Innovation. The cruising community is ripe for something new and different, something that challenges the status quo of big, expensive cruising boats that don't fit a more enlightened approach to sustainable cruising.
Monday Minute - Cleaners That Really Work
Handholds Highlight Difficult Access
Monday Minute - Time to Repaint!
When elbow-tiring, hand-rubbed compounding and waxing no longer does the job, it may be time to paint your boat. Gelcoat is not intended as a forever finish, and 11 years was perhaps waiting too long. No worries, striking beauty is only a paint job and $$$$ away. And it is the start of the effort to take this great Hunt design and make it into the great boat it should be.
Enlightenment by a Dishwasher Repairman
Monday Minute - How Hard to Run Your Diesel
A Photo Essay - Newfoundland’s Fjord Coast and St Pierre
Monday Minute - Exhaust Systems, The Achilles Heel of Boating
Beyond Hollywood - Setting the Stage for Dunkirk
The new movie, Dunkirk, tells the story of the evacuation of 335,000 troops off the beaches of Dunkirk at the beginning of WWII. It is a victory within a terrible defeat, and brought together a British nation for the difficult task that lay ahead.
But the movie focuses on a few, leaving out the larger picture of the enormity of such an undertaking. I try to fill in some details of this staggering event in history that set the stage for the ultimate victory.
Monday Minute - Keeping Your Batteries Clean.
Our first Monday Minute, sharing a piece of useful information from traveling around the world, visiting boat builders and suppliers to our industry. Due to the enormous diversity of the global marine world, spanning commercial, recreational, and military segments, many of these professionals know much more than we will ever experience during our boating years.
I find their tips and comments worth considering.
It’s been a long time coming but we now see tangible progress emerging to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel. If the U.S. Navy can prove that it works, isn’t it about time the concept of the modern cruising boat includes hybrid forms of propulsion?