The upside of bringing back Polio, something about Tesla, and in the “Beyond Our Wildest Imagination” department… That recent Atlantic Rally for Cruisers fatality where they were unable to rescue or even find a participant who had gone overboard wearing a self-inflating PFD with a PLB got me thinking that you really can’t buy safety. …
Here’s a fun fact that occurred to me yesterday… Most carrots available for sale here in the USVI seem to come from Canada. Here’s another factoid you might want to consider… A lot of Caribbean islands buy groceries for resale in the USVI. Which is to say that, when shopping for a can of tomatoes, …
I’ve never been much of a fan of cruising to a schedule and planning long voyages just makes my head hurt. Yeah, I’m looking at you Jimmy Cornell. Trying to make sense of getting to where I want to go from where I happen to be at the moment can be problematic (at best). Throw …
One of my favorite cruising books I’ve come across is Orca and if you have not read it you really should. I mention this because there’s a sequel “Thicker Than Ice” by John Pennington that’s even better. Truthfully, I was not able to put the book down till I was finished and there are not …
While I have zero desire to ever return to the sunshine state (with the exception of reading Carl Hiaasen and James W. Hall books) I have kept a weather eye on its continued anti-cruiser policies. Yeah, I know, upscale beachfront property owners don’t want their view sullied by someone hanging underwear on their lifelines and …
Got up this morning to this… Now, as I’ve said many times before, the best place to be when”H” season comes around is sitting in a sidewalk cafe, self-medicating with a bottle of Ricard pastis and a pitcher of cold water. Failing that, one should be in some out-of-the-way place where “H” season is not …
Yeah, I know no one want to have anything to do with politics and my new T-shirt pretty much sums up my current view of things… The problem is that if you ignore politics you’re going to find that they will come around and bite you in the ass. For example, all of a sudden, …
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time mulling over the idea of an alternative earth cruising guide. The idea being that if the world had evolved a bit differently that boats, cruisers and cruising grounds would be a somewhat divergent reality. I started thinking about this when I realized hardly anyone cruises in the …
Lauric Thiault raising the bar on what a sailing YouTube video should be like.
As they’re already forecasting a nasty “H” season, it’s way past time for me to be considering the various options that make sense. Trust me, it’s a whole lot better sitting in a French sidewalk cafe than it is being in the mangroves waiting for all hell to break loose. Since we’re speaking of hurricanes, …
