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Bursledon Blog

Autumn Mists - Keats' Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness gave a spectacular showing with morning mists filling the river valley. Having slept in a little later t...
1 day ago
The Log of Spartina

a little bit of everything - Twelve days into the fall sail on Chesapeake Bay and I am just now able to sort the apple phone/google sign-in issues and make a post. First of all, tha...
1 day ago
Ecosophia

Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting Revisited - Our review of my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the future of industrial society, published twenty years ago in the first months of m...
3 days ago
self-portrait in the present sea journal

Hilton Head Island: shameless self-promotion - If you would like to read an excerpt from GANNET 6–and you know you do—Scot Tempesta has posted a chapter at his Rule 69 website, as well as some embarr...
5 days ago
Small Boat Restoration

Gyokucho Ryoba Razorsaw - *01 Oct 26:* Our article is out in Small Boats Nation for the ryoba handsaw.
1 week ago
Scottish Coastal Rowing

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1 week ago
Indigenous Boats

Attend Early Watercraft Conference in Derry, Northern Ireland in November - The Early Watercraft Association has released the full schedule for the *2nd International Early Watercraft Congress*, to be held 6-8 November in Derry/L...
2 weeks ago
Sailing By: Tales from our coasts and inland waterways

An autumn cruise, Llanelli to Bude, 1884 - Eden Northmore Jones recounts his final cruise of 1884 in the five-tonner ‘Guess’, a 23 ft. round bilge boat, 8ft. 4″ beam, drawing 4ft. After a September ...
3 weeks ago
TriloBoat Talk

Risk, Resources and the Risk Budget - *Ducking out of Trouble* *Check yourself before you wreck yourself. * *-- Meg Cabot* *Risk, Resources and the Risk Budget* I think often about risk ...
3 weeks ago
Terrapin Tales

Sailing with Leviathans - Outside of being hot and sometimes smoky, the summer has been great. I’ve spent most of my free time outdoors, avoiding real-life responsibilities, and not...
5 weeks ago
François Vivier, naval architect

Seil, timber version, for sale - Je vends “SKAFAKI”, mon Seil bois massif numéro de voile 118, à regrets mais contraint par mon âge et les difficultés qui vont avec…Le site de sa construct...
1 month ago
Claudia Myatt

Wandering on wheels - Some years ago, after a short illness, I wrote a song called ‘I haven’t finished yet’. It’s about dying – or rather, not-dying, a bucket-list song, a plea ...
1 month ago
Boating Safety Tips, Tricks & Thoughts from Captnmike

Some Best Practices For Teaching - Recently Klaas ask me to help with Public Education for the Northwest District of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. This is an updated presentation of some best ...
4 months ago
Marginalia | an infrequent repository of mostly new stuff

Melonseeds with a Side of Mountains - Doug L and I got the Melonseeds out for a short sail. The first time this year for mine; his second. Doug has a Crawford boat, which will soon become col...
5 months ago
Port-na-Storm

Slack Water Alice. - Its been a long time coming. Designed over ten years ago as a simple two sheet canoe but never built due to "life" and a lack of confidence, she's final...
5 months ago
Urban Sketchers

Tiny Watercolor Notes from Downeast Maine - Calais Waterfront — March 2026. A quick ink‑and‑wash sketch capturing the riverbank and winter light along the St. Croix River at the Canadian border. ——...
6 months ago
in the boat shed

Old paintings and sketches of maritime Faversham, Tuesday 14th April - This looks like a fine event to me!
6 months ago
Bowsprite: A New York Harbor Sketchbook

in dire straits - “Nothing untouched by war under the sun? Time for some flower power!” sayeth Rembert. Indeed, there is nothing untouched by anything, for we are all connec...
6 months ago
Flotilha

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6 months ago
CAXINAS... de "Lugar" a Freguesia.

Granville, 17 de Dezembro de 1740. - Memória sobre a navegação e comércio do porto e comunidade de Granville, Nova França, pela mão do inspector Sicard, 17 de Dezembro de 1740: «O comércio ...
7 months ago
Joel's Navigator Site

CNC files for Welsford Tread Lightly - FREE - *NOTE: These CNC files have been updated to add planks and correct errors. If you have previously downloaded these, please re-download Revision "A".* ...
1 year ago
The Log of Hagoth

More detailed photos of Oceanus - We have a lot of interest in *Oceanus *from potential buyers. To help them decide if she is the boat for them I want to share more photos and informatio...
1 year ago
Saltwater People Log

Cyclamen hederifolium Creeping About - *Cyclamen Hederfolium alba* The tubers were rescued from the garden formerly tended by Elsie Crawford, and her parents before her, at the little cot...
1 year ago
Viking Boats of Ullapool

- Here's something I wrote for Classic Boat some years ago. It ended up with me rebuilding the mast in a cow shed, 9 miles up a Highland track, a projec...
1 year ago
Hove to off Swan Point

Classic SJOGIN photos - Hi all. Now that I’ve reinstalled the WordPress Classic editor let’s see if I can start posting here again. Just looked and it will be almost twenty year...
1 year ago
Ross Lillistone Wooden Boats

Periwinkle - New Sails Bent On - Previous rig... ...new rig. I have completed the bending on of my new set of sails for 'Periwinkle', with test sailing to come in the next ten days or...
1 year ago
scottishboating

The Scottish Islanders - Get your copy from www.shop.yachtarchive.scot !
2 years ago
Small Trimarans

Scarab 650 Building Blog in France - Writes Jerome R. from France, regarding his construction of a Scarab 650 trimaran: Hi, My name is Jérôme and I am French. I am an assiduous reader of your ...
3 years ago
Boat Bits

Post #3641... - Something about blogs, way past time, and in the *"a significant break from reality"* department... *"Just roll with the flow wherever it goes even if i...
3 years ago
Gardens of Fenwick

Removing Butyl Tape: Suggestions? - *Gardens'* CB case leaks a fair bit when sailing to windward. The case has three parts: the main trunk; a 'box' (housing the CB uphaul rigging); and a 'c...
4 years ago
Issuma: SailBlogs

Hitching a Ride - At sea, sometimes birds find places to land on the boat and rest for a while. Usually they land on the rail, which is easy to land on. (Continued...)
4 years ago
Earwigoagin

Music Whenever: Mega Bog "Station to Station" - Found this on my son's playlist. Dreamy. I think it's about a breakup but not totally sure.
4 years ago
Frogma

ESB Paparazza! - ok the story was, I had morning chemo and an afternoon scan last week Tuesday, so I took the day off from work, took my camera along & wandered the vicini...
5 years ago
Voyaging with Annie Hill

The bilgeboards - In spite of being described by no lesser authority than Wikipedia, my choice of bilgeboards seems to have caused immense confusion among both visitors and ...
6 years ago
les poissons des arbres

Périssoire Liliane-Ginette - Petite excursion à l'autre bout du Loiret, au bord de la rivière l'Ouanne*, Pour aller à la rencontre de cette petite périssoire, je suis accueilli par mo...
6 years ago
... Thin Water Annie

Sunrise - October 10, 2019 Cast off 0500 with lights set. Motored flashing buoys out the South River. It was our last day and I wanted to see it dawn. It turned out ...
6 years ago
2020 Social Justice

New Hope for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse? - “I have a voice, and I intend to use it,” writes Keith Thomas Davis, Survivor of childhood sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. "My initial experience...
7 years ago
Quidnon

Hull Assembly Made Easy - This project is now in its fifth year and, dare I say, running smoothly. It started out as a pile of good ideas that came out of the experience of living a...
7 years ago
Donkey Mountain

Everybody Loves Trump - The Trump circus marches on, dauntless and unbloodied. It ’s going to keep doing so right to reelection, when the Democrats discover, too late as always, t...
7 years ago
Letters From The Road--Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos

The last bit in Hanoi, and on to Korea, homeward bound again! - Written from home a week and more after The End That last afternoon in Hanoi was like so many others I've lived through, but better too. I walked around, s...
7 years ago
Museu do Barco

2º SEMINÁRIO DE TECNOLOGIA NÁUTICA- Rio de Janeiro - .
7 years ago
what was the middle thing?

black and white Beachcomber - Participating in classic rallies brings the benefit of having people with cameras shooting at your boat while you are busy having fun. While we are alw...
8 years ago
Martha Pfanschmidt Blog

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8 years ago
Resilient Communities

The Biggest News For Beekeepers In This Century? - Now here’s something exciting for all beekeepers out there, myself included! I’ve kept my eye on Open Source Beehives and their BuzzBox beehive sensor .....
9 years ago
ROWING FOR PLEASURE

David and goliaths - Went sailing up Southampton Water with the Dinghy Cruising Association on Saturday. Winds were light to nothing at all so almost everyone relied to a con...
9 years ago
A Barge in the Making

Kiss o' the Sea - *Dippin' a Toe* *All beginnings are delightful;* *The threshold is the place to pause. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe* *Kiss o' the Sea* We made it to ...
10 years ago
1001 Boats

The Junior that came before the senior - Image: J-Klubben You might think that a boat widely known by the name “Junior Folkboat” must be a newer design derived from the famous Nordic Folkboat cr...
10 years ago
llaüts

La nena que no surt a la foto - M'he separat de la meva parella i he experimentat l'angoixa de qui s'afanya a llençar salvavides a les dues filles que hem tingut en comú. Les pretensions ...
11 years ago
The Invisible workshop

A lambency of gaff in looms - Why go to Cadaqués, I reasoned, one of the most beautiful Mediterranean towns: ex fishing village, a player in the surrealist movement, known for the aston...
11 years ago
The Adventures of Ginny and Steve!

Death of a Voyage - Dear friends and family, Steve speaking. I last wrote to you from St. Martin at the northwest end of the chain of small islands that begins with Grenada....
11 years ago
starboardlocker

We are home! - We arrived back on the 12th of September. We were met in Annet Bay on the beautiful calm day by a flotilla of boats. The first one was Netta, Dads Fishing ...
11 years ago
El mar és el camí

Llibres de mar 4: “La expedición de la Kon Tiki” - Amb motiu de l’estrena de la pel·lícula “*Kon Tiki*” al nostre país, l’octubre passat, vaig recuperar de la meva biblioteca nàutica tot un clàssic de la n...
12 years ago
Man on the River - London to Istanbul

Ultimo passo, primo passo - Ce l’ho fatta! Ce l’abbiamo fatta!! Clodia, tutti coloro che hanno dato a questo viaggio, di passione ed acqua, ed […]
13 years ago

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Carolina Chocolate Drops