Putting the Rudder Before the Boat.
Road trip breakfast. Returning to the normal flow of the blog after the last post’s digression through the Northwest Passage, …
A Tale of the Northwest Passage, in memory of Print Media
A photo taken for an early CW article. For more than twenty years, ever since Cruising World magazine first published …
Two Very Different Things, or Not a Bad Way to Start
It was all the way back in the spring that I last blogged about Antigone’s boat build. An incredibly busy …
The Backyard Warrior Returns
Antigone, our oldest daughter, was about two years old when we began building Ganymede in the yard of our house …
On haulouts, heating, and other muses.
Ganymede’s first bottom job, in Cartagena. Since her launch fifteen or so years ago, we’ve had Ganymede on a pretty …
An Accidental Enterprise
Packaged gear for the new webstore. One of the things that keeps life interesting is trying new things: a new …
A Foray into the Fast Unknown
Ganymede: a heavy, full-keel, gaff-rigged cutter. It has probably become obvious to the alert reader that I’m partial to full-keel, …
A Synthetic Rigging Upgrade: Vectran to Dyneema
Ganymede sailing hard with synthetic rigging. Masthead with soft attachments and the Lashing Tang When we first rigged Ganymede’s light-pole …
Refit and Relaunch
Picking Ganymede up with an hydraulic trailer Launching by trailer at a public launch ramp in Bristol The surest way …
Believe in the Method
The beginning of the method And if I haven’t had time to update this blog lately, dear Reader: be comforted! …
Winterin’
For the enthusiastic boater, that last little bit of autumn when the daytime temperature still gets above fifty degrees is …
Returning to Normal?
The Arctic is not most people’s “normal” I wondered, as Polar Sun rolled downwind across the Beaufort Sea along the …
