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Alluvial (River) Flats... Light blue is dry-out zone, deep blue is deep water. It had been a beautiful, but stormy autumn. We'd been heading down Lynn Canal / Chatham Straits, a 200 mile long wind cannon, after visiting with my Brother's family n...
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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, Nor life on a single hope. Epictetus There are some nights, me Boys and Girls, where well set anchors are the best of friends!Most cruising advice is to carry three anchors; the bower (usu...
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A well set anchor is a good night's sleep. Wind? Any Fool can sail with wind. It takes a Man to sail without it!One of our Snaggle-Toothed, Water-Rat FriendsSetting anchor under sail is a valuable skill, well documented by serious sailors i...
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The Rule of Tenths is a decimal approximation of fractions from the Rule of Twelfths... the two are equivalent.(Drawing not to scale)Getting around with shoal draft means getting up close and personal with the bottom. Since the tide is busy coming and ...
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This winter, the wind blew a well maintained, centegenarian cannery building off its piling in neighboring Sitkoh Bay!There's something about Alaskans; If they survive, they think they've had a good time!A Visiting FriendIf you can't dodge wrenche...
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"Black... as the Night... is."Ken Nordine's Word JazzSquiggy Squigmond is afraid of nothing. Except darkness.From the LaVerne and Shirley ShowThe thing about night sailing is the darkness.We're visual, and mostly diurnal creatures. We lack tapeta ...
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EEEEEEE! ha?Photo of Sergius Narrows by Richard Nelson(Check him out!)I don't blame you for being scared -- not one bit. Nobody with good sense ain't scared of whitewater.Humphrey Bogart in The African QueenArchipelagos, by their nature, are...
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Bolger was a true shantyboater at heart… as a designer… and for quite some time, in his choice of home. Though he did design boats with traditional beauty, including the sailing ship Rose, most know him today as the designer of a series of square boats, boats with a beauty that was...
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It’s a basic sailing barge shantyboat, an idea with preliminary sketches. It’s been removed, but at one time the price for developing a full set of plans was in the $5000 range. Perhaps it can serve as inspiration. You’ll find this design along with many other ideas, here. (mid-page) Bumble - This 28′ yawl is...
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Ocean Explorer – designed by Perttu Korhonen and Michael Storer - Duckworksmagazine.com, where you can buy the plans! Introduction by Perttu Korhonen: I like exploring new lakes. I built an OzRacer by Michael Storer and liked its performance and handling. With it I made one overnight trip and that convinced me, that the PDRacer/OzRacer is quite...
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