In the last blog post, I talked about starting up the climbing gear business—Zartman Rigging: Legendary Climbing Gear. It was …

Packaged gear for the new webstore. One of the things that keeps life interesting is trying new things: a new …

Ganymede: a heavy, full-keel, gaff-rigged cutter. It has probably become obvious to the alert reader that I’m partial to full-keel, …

Ganymede sailing hard with synthetic rigging. Masthead with soft attachments and the Lashing Tang When we first rigged Ganymede’s light-pole …

Picking Ganymede up with an hydraulic trailer Launching by trailer at a public launch ramp in Bristol The surest way …

The beginning of the method And if I haven’t had time to update this blog lately, dear Reader: be comforted! …

For the enthusiastic boater, that last little bit of autumn when the daytime temperature still gets above fifty degrees is …

The Arctic is not most people’s “normal” I wondered, as Polar Sun rolled downwind across the Beaufort Sea along the …

Gjoa Haven, on King WIllian Island, Nunavut. It was as if the world had run out of interesting, that week …

Hanging out in Pasley Bay We weren’t expecting to get out of Pasley Bay on our last day there, and …

Pack ice approaching Pasley Bay. “Well,” we thought. “Here we are again!” I’m talking, of course, about the south arm …

Beechey Island, at 74 1/2 degrees North latitude. It was cold as Polar Sun motored at length into the spacious …