January 2010
Storm Petrel 33
Submitted by cac on Sat, 2010-01-30 21:51
Here's a Devlin design that looks really nice to me. Fits in the "pocket cruiser" category... maybe. Might be a bit big to trailer, but still a nice sized boat.
Shallow draft, looks like it would make a great coastal or river boat. read more »
More excellent video of Grand Banks schooners dory boats and fishermen
The Lonely Men of the Dories
Jay Cresswell has been in touch to tell us about some more video of the Grand Bankers of Portugal – see Comments in the left-hand column above left.
He’s also been in touch to say that within a few years, there will be as many as three restored four-masted schooners built in the 1930s for use in the Grand Banks fishing grounds. read more »
Mischief V: Flagler Beach to New Smyrna
Submitted by flagold on Fri, 2010-01-29 22:51Some good stories and the ongoing cruise... a few more details and pictures of the boat.
Iridium 9602 & Inmarsat IsatPhone Pro, oh boy!
The smaller, cheaper Iridium short-burst data (SBD) modem I heard about at Fort Lauderdale is now official and, wow, doesn't it look able to "disappear into as many marine devices as possible!" It even has a GPS input/output ports so that it and the modem can easily share a dual-mode antenna. Hardware and service costs aren't specified but Iridi read more »
Missing links
Submitted by cac on Fri, 2010-01-29 09:25No, not talking about evolution... more about de-evolution. If you encountered references to web pages here on the blog, but there was no link with it, my apologies. There was a software upgrade and I missed a config setting and the links weren't appearing.
Please try again and let me know if you don't find what you were looking for.
Thanks to Alex Dotsch from Started Sailing? for pointing it out!
Call for pictures and information: the Flying Twelve!
Flying 10s at the Lancashire Sailing Club long ago
Can anyone help Robert Macdonald please – he has written in to ask for photos and information about built examples of Flying Twelves. read more »
EasyBailer, a good idea done well
Weird world that it is, I first learned of EasyBailer via Twitter, even though the "factory" is just down the coast. Last week I stopped in and met "CEO" John Bianchi in his shop full of small boats, including an impressive plank-on-frame read more »
Started Sailing?
Submitted by cac on Thu, 2010-01-28 22:03An interesting looking blog/site/community geared around... sailing (surprise!). Alex Dotsch is a young man that has already been sailing a good while.
Looks to have some good information if you are embarking on learning more about sailing.
