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…
12 year review of Dyneema standing rigging
Coming soon to a theater near you. There are some newer developments in Dyneema rigging. Black! watch this space for a review of the rigging we have had aboard ANGELSEA for 12 years now and my wish list for the…
Dyneema Synthetic rigging torture test
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…
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 Angelsea
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…