I'm sitting on a boat with teak overlay on ply , it was built in 1974. It's time for it to go but geez, nearly 50 years isn't a bad life and I'm not...
She was, we met them at Gt Barrier one year, next year they were in the paper being rescued as the boat was taking on water off the coast somewhere....
Exactly . I said as much didn't I. Ketches are too pragmatic , too efficient at what they do , which more often than not is go to sea shorthanded day...
Schooners are beautiful, romantic , lovely things, but there are reasons that (edit:THE) worlds bi-poler fleet is overwhelmingly ketch rigged. Its to...
Good spotting , P. Thats the sum total of boat work this season. There were three consecutive dry days , I did about 8 or 9 hours work . A few ( very...