i have to give a shout-out here to Leatherman. i picked up one of their Wave models in Antigua this spring, and the accessory tool kit for it some months later in Vancouver. So, okay, i look and feel a little geekish with this cluster of black nylon sheaths glued to my hip, but damned if i haven’t been finding this tool to be uneeringly handy several times daily, just about since the first hour of ownership. Not a replacement for a decent fixed-blade sheath knife on a boat, but damn damn handy.
September 2, 2005
August 21, 2005
of the week
Website of the week is Face The Issue. New (well, at least previously undiscovered by me) music of the week is The MC5; a Rebel Spell from the ’60’s…
August 19, 2005
woody and fibrous
A fellow sailor posted this to her blog:
“It would be a steel hulled with wooden masts that sleeps at least 20. Maybe one or two squares in the rig, or a gaff topsail schooner. Something like the R.Tucker Thompson. I’d advertise on the internet and in magazines to do charters, ed trips, youth at risk programs, whatever was in demand in Puget Sound, Vancouver Island and Southeast Alaska. But it would be weekend or weeklong trips minimum, none of this daysail nonsense. And we’d have a good boat dog and allow at least one crew to raise a kid on board.
What would YOU do if you had you’re own tall ship?”
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