DoryMan: playing for change

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Bursledon Blog

Netley foreshore - Friend Greg sent me some old photographs of Netley foreshore, which has changed somewhat. Below sadly no drone footage, but looking back in the direction...
8 hours ago
The Log of Spartina

waiting out the fog - The forecast rain for today slid by offshore. The fog, however, is thick and persistent. Waiting for the tide to change so I can begin working my east...
22 hours ago
self-portrait in the present sea journal

San Diego: 1725 - We made it. Finally. Carol has driven 1725 miles. And are now in a room at the Hyatt overlooking Quivira Basin. The last day was the hardest. After s...
1 day ago
Ecosophia

Energy: Preparations and Possibilities Revisited - Last month we started the process of looking back twenty years at my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the deindustrial future, with an ...
4 days ago
Small Boat Restoration

Bahamas Dinghy Gunwale - *15 Aug 26:* We attached the new gunwale to the Bahamas Dinghy HENNING today, first marked the screw hole with a fender washer spacer. Drilled a counte...
1 week 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 week ago
François Vivier, naval architect

Petit Treho, built by Skol ar Mor for the architect - Petit Trého est le premier exemplaire d’une nouvelle série qui sera proposée très prochainement en version clin de contreplaqué ou en petites lattes. Un ex...
1 week ago
Scottish Coastal Rowing

Microplastics Paper report - Many of you will remember taking part in the microplastics survey a few years ago. The data has all finally been collated and put into a full report which ...
2 weeks ago
TriloBoat Talk

Glide Rig: A Hybrid Rig for Rowing Sailboats - *MUSTELID gliding alongFull Foresail - Roll Reefed Main - Driver* *All I wanted was a tall ship* *And a star to sail her by* * Through the night.* * ...
3 weeks ago
Terrapin Tales

Digital Tide - As a human-powered boater, there are few things (except maybe whales) more interesting than the way the moon pulls the water away from the earth a few time...
1 month ago
Indigenous Boats

Download Fishing Craft and Fisheries of Hong Kong by British Naval Intelligence - [image: Line art sail plan and deck arrangement, and monochrome photo of fishing junk] The Ku tsai teng, a Hong Kon junk used for purse sein fishing. Click...
2 months 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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. ——...
4 months ago
in the boat shed

Old paintings and sketches of maritime Faversham, Tuesday 14th April - This looks like a fine event to me!
4 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...
4 months ago
Flotilha

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4 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 ...
6 months ago
Sailing By: Tales from our coasts and inland waterways

By boat from Manningtree to Ipswich, 1727 - What would travellers from the days of sail make of Harwich Harbour in the 21st century? Writing in 1727, Daniel Defoe takes to his boat from Manningtree t...
10 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".* ...
10 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
3 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...
6 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 ...
9 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...
9 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 ...
10 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...
10 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 8, 2010

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