Chafe has always been a concern with Dyneema or any synthetic rigging As a by product of Hurricane Earl, my synthetic rigging went through a real torture test. There have been continuous questions about how this new technology will…
sailing without an engine
Even though I have an engine now. I thought you all would enjoy this story from the days of sailing on my 22′ Falmouth Cutter, Anglesea, without an engine. It’s the morning of December 21st, the winter solstice and a…
Living aboard
,Want to know about Living aboard? Ten Years a go I sailed a Bristol Channel Cutter named Shanti into Long Bay, St. Thomas of the U.S. Virgin Islands (November 2007) and started living aboard. Since then a lot has happend.…
Securing for hurricanes
Securing Angelsea for hurricanes in the mangroves Hello from beautiful St. Thomas! At least it is today, but we still have a few weeks of an active hurricane season left on the calender. This post is in response to…
A new engine for Shanti
New Engine on the way. Well we gave it the old collage try. I worked and worked on rebuilding Shanti’s engine. Ran like a watch the first few hours. But something happened and it doesn’t run like a watch no…
Lee helm revisited
Hi all, As discussed in this thread http://www.samlmorse.com/forum/read.php?5,9644 I had a problem with lee helm. Now after sailing with the old and new sail (jib) I have come to some conclusions. But first some details about the 2 jibs. I…