Tale of a used diesel motor sale. For each our last three sailboats, we’d purchased new auxiliary engines. Yup, gluttonous upgrades. Moored on the tumultuous Merrimack River, we've accepted the fact that to get to and from the ocean, unless you're a hard-core purist and or an exceptionally patient sailor, you're smart to employ a …
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Two Sheets To The Wind
18th century term describing someone who is Not as drunk as someone who is “three sheets to the wind”. Derived from the act of being unable to control his vessel, hence leaving the sheets unattended. In a recent post, Seven Doo Dads, I briefly mentioned converting over from one to two independent mainsheets, and eliminating …
Chesapeake Rendezvous Galore
We waved goodbye to good friends, dropped our American Yacht Club mooring lines and departed Newburyport early on a sunny morning. After overnight anchoring stops at Block Island, the Delaware River mouth, and catching the early tide north, we traversed west through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. We turned south again making another stop near …
Velocity Made Good
A sailor knows that a boat can’t be sailed directly into the wind, even if that’s where she wants to go. Aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, design and skill determine how a boat will sail, and how close into (toward) the wind a sailboat can go. Velocity Made Good, or VMG, is a sailing term referring to the …
Sailing Onomatopoeia
A kind reader recently commented at how he enjoys the more mundane of my postings. Enjoy! On a tracking post (pre-April ‘23) I defined Sailing Perfection - just the right amount of wind and calm-enough seas to make-way an easy 7+ knots. During another such bout of fantastic bounding across the ocean, distantly offshore, reclining …
SV Fayaway 