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Dirty Wet Dog, the great adventure.

Dirty Wet Dog, the great adventure.

Go for a hike, sail a boat, paddle a canoe or sea kayak, spend time out in the woods, on the trail, up a mountain or down a canyon. Live the fullest and best life that you can…..have great and terrible experiences while you have the chance because life is short. Think your own thoughts and be your own person, if you can then share some of that with others.

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Friday 5 minute blog, February

This series of posts is the once monthly round-up of jobs that i have either finished or am actively working…

Calstock boatyard, Electrics, Hunter Liberty, Project, Spring sailing, workshop fail

Sticky fingers.

A workshop and projects post. In 2 recent posts i wrote about the first of my workshop projects in which…

epoxy resin, glue, glue sniffing, Gorilla glue, Project, Sikaflex, workshop

Sprits and Snotters.

A ‘WABI”‘ spring projects post. In a couple of posts i have been talking about modifying my Hunter Liberty’s rig…

Calstock boatyard, Hunter Liberty, Spring refit, Sprit rig, Sprit-booms, WABI'''

That Satori moment.

In my last post of 2018 i was trying to say why i don’t particularly like the high-end yachts such…

Bushcraft, Micro adventures, Micro-cruisers, outdoor adventure, Sailing literature, satori, simplicity

From Tamar to Tolkien.

And from ‘The Orwell‘ to George Orwell…..see what i did there ? This is of course one of my ‘Look…

1984, 1985, Burgess, Free speech, Orwell, Stalin, Thoughtcrime, Totalitarianism

The princess and a boat called Roy.

‘Rob Roy’…… to be more precise. In my first long video post of this year i talked about my canoe…

Chesapeake light craft, Iain Oughtread, Rob Roy canoe, sailing canoe, sea kayak

WABI”’ refit, 1 : Bring on the heat.

For the spring series of posts i am going to concentrate on 2 things namely, continuing with the workshop changes…

boat heaters, charcoal stove, Hunter Liberty, LPG stoves, Parafin stoves

Friday 5 minute blog : January

With so much going on now i can think about increasing the blog output back to twice a week again. …

Calstock boatyard, Hampshire heaters, Hunter Liberty, Pansy stove

A Golden age….but for who ?

Now, should that be ‘who’ or ‘whom‘ ? my grammatical’s are never the best. In this post i am going…

America 1950, Civil rights, Gay movement, Golden age of yachting, L Francis Herreshoff, Mc Carthyism, Nuclear era

A dedicated follower of fashion.

I can feel a rant coming on ! I write around 150 posts a year on the blog and i…

Hunter Liberty, IOR, Jet-ski scum, L Francis Herreshoff, ocean racing freaks, Small boat cruising

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