Refit Season: Spring into Action
The coming of spring and some spring cleaning.
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The coming of spring and some spring cleaning.
The question- “What is the perfect cruising boat?” is one with many different answers.
What do sailors do when they come ashore? Build boats, of course.
I saw one time, at a museum in Virginia, a curious watch with only ten hours marked on the dial. It turned out to be
The worst thing for me about taking a break from cruising is having to find a job. Not the job itself, mind you—just the looking
As we had struggled up the St Lawrence River and down the canal systems toward the Hudson river, discussion of what to do afterwards had
They say that one can get used to almost anything, if done often enough. I wasn’t so sure of that when we got up at
The Zartman family heads south from Canada and realizes how much more of the world there is still to see.
“No worries,” I had been telling everyone for the last month—everyone who had pointed out that to go through the Chambly Canal the mast would
The charts we bought in Newfoundland for the St Lawrence River have a neat feature: a letter inside a little diamond leads you to a table in the margin that tells you what the current will be doing just there at each stage of the tide.
“The further we go, the more expensive winter storage gets, and this late in the season all the marinas and yards are shutting down. If we’re going to fail and have to leave the boat behind until spring, we’re better off getting an early start on that…”
In order to put some miles in their wake, the Zartman family makes some overnight passages and is rewarded with one of nature’s best shows.
The coming of spring and some spring cleaning.
The question- “What is the perfect cruising boat?” is one with many different answers.
What do sailors do when they come ashore? Build boats, of course.
I saw one time, at a museum in Virginia, a curious watch with only ten hours marked on the dial. It turned out to be
The worst thing for me about taking a break from cruising is having to find a job. Not the job itself, mind you—just the looking
As we had struggled up the St Lawrence River and down the canal systems toward the Hudson river, discussion of what to do afterwards had
They say that one can get used to almost anything, if done often enough. I wasn’t so sure of that when we got up at
The Zartman family heads south from Canada and realizes how much more of the world there is still to see.
“No worries,” I had been telling everyone for the last month—everyone who had pointed out that to go through the Chambly Canal the mast would
The charts we bought in Newfoundland for the St Lawrence River have a neat feature: a letter inside a little diamond leads you to a table in the margin that tells you what the current will be doing just there at each stage of the tide.
“The further we go, the more expensive winter storage gets, and this late in the season all the marinas and yards are shutting down. If we’re going to fail and have to leave the boat behind until spring, we’re better off getting an early start on that…”
In order to put some miles in their wake, the Zartman family makes some overnight passages and is rewarded with one of nature’s best shows.
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