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Monday, January 13, 2014

‘Minnow’s’ Compass

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I have decided to abandon the old Bosun compass in favour of the Plastimo bulkhead compass. The latter takes up less room, and ...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Searching Bill’s Log and a New Format

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The old Google search engine within the blog stopped working, but a new search box appeared in the top left corner of the home page. T...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

‘Minnow’s’ Yuloh is securely stowed

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Seemingly a disproportionate effort has gone into reshaping ‘Minnow’s’ yuloh and making stowage brackets for it. I do not know ...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Recycling ‘Minnow’

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Christmas is over; the New Year has begun. Father Christmas brought an influx of items, all of which require space for stora...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

Looking Forward to the Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Regatta

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In the account* of Lot’s escape from depraved Sodom, along with his wife and two daughters, one of the two escorting angels spoke to ...
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

The Enchanting, Seductive ‘Minnow’

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The weather was ideal for working on ‘Minnow’ today, but I was called to paint the interior of a storage cupboard in the kitchen, ...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

My Cruising Logs

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Until today, the accounts of two cruises were missing from my Cruising Logs, both done with ‘Sandpiper’, my ‘C’ Type West Wight Potte...
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Monday, January 06, 2014

Jester Challenge 2014

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One event I am looking forward to is the start of the Jester Challenge which will take place 1400 BST, Sunday, 11 th May, 2014 at...
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Sunday, January 05, 2014

Trying a Different Format for the Blog

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  For the past few weeks I’ve tried a different format for presenting my blog, and I’ve been happy with it to a certain extent...
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Saturday, January 04, 2014

Beer Luggers

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  'Temegani', a converted Beer or Exmouth Lugger My daughter’s partner recently bought a gaff cutter that may have started ...
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Friday, January 03, 2014

Joshua Slocum

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I chanced upon a 44 minute film on YouTube featuring Joshua Slocum and his epic single-handed voyage around the world, and I re...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge

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For the life of me I cannot work out why apparently sane people would want to row across the Atlantic. Each participant must have their...
Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Richard Guziewicz’s 50/50 – Part 2

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As a very welcome start to 2014, Richard Guziewicz emailed me with warm greetings and more photos of his Paul Fisher 50/50 deck...
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Saturday, December 21, 2013

A Happy Christmas

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  This comes to wish you all a Happy Christmas. I’ll be taking a break from the blog for a few days – possibly until the beginnin...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Slow Going for ‘Minnow’

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Surprise, surprise! I only managed to find 15 minutes for ‘Minnow’, and during that time I applied a third coat of varnish to t...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Intervention

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   Renovating ‘Minnow’ is a long term project; especially as many things intervene between working on her. Today, I could on...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Melonseed Video

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Roger Rodibaugh who owns Melonseed, ‘Three Cheers’, got in touch to thank me for featuring   his poem ‘Shore to Shore’ on 15 th D...