GGR 2018, Part 3: Start of the Super Quarantine of a Lifetime—Les Sables-d’Olonne, France

Group photo before the SITraN start The ideal wind at the start of the SITraN charity race did not last long, and the fleet slowed down in the light breeze with an increasing number of calms in it. But the race rules allowed us to use our engines, due to the heavily loaded [...]

By |2020-06-13T18:02:10-04:00June 11th, 2020|2018 Golden Globe Race News, Puffin in the Golden Globe Race, Puffin in the Golden Globe Race, Uncategorized|Comments Off on GGR 2018, Part 3: Start of the Super Quarantine of a Lifetime—Les Sables-d’Olonne, France

Puffin Restoration Part 12: “Hold On!”

If— “…If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’…” —Rudyard Kipling The opening of my first book features Kipling's complete poem, which has been the main [...]

By |2017-08-23T01:04:50-04:00August 23rd, 2017|2018 Golden Globe Race News, Puffin Restoration, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Puffin Restoration Part 12: “Hold On!”

Puffin Restoration Part 11: “Going with the Flow”

Don Casey has a chapter with this title in one of his books, This Old Boat, which has served as my bible in Puffin's restoration. But it somehow skips the most serious difficulty in the hose replacement, which is snaking the heavy, stiffly reinforced hoses through the labyrinth of an old full-keel sailboat’s bilges and [...]

By |2017-07-04T21:46:08-04:00July 4th, 2017|2018 Golden Globe Race News, Puffin Restoration, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Puffin Restoration Part 11: “Going with the Flow”
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