#micro-cruisers

In my last post of 2018 i was trying to say why i don’t particularly like the high-end yachts such as the ‘J’ class and superyachts although i did at an earlier stage in my own sailing life.   I was reminded again of that today by 2 things : one a strong positive and one an equally strong negative.

My main series of posts for the spring will be the Liberty refit and experiments posts but this…

Going small : sailing large.

Note to regular readers : this is the 3rd and final section of the original ‘how small’ series.  This is essentially a re-write of the Charles Stock/Shoal Waters section, in short a look at how small it is feasible to go and still have a viable cruising boat.  Please note that throughout this post i talk about the late Charles Stock very much in the present tense, i know that i should say ‘the…

How small….downsize and solo.

Note to regular readers, this is a complete re-write of a very early post of mine.  In this case and because it’s a complete re-write i have given it a new working title and left the old post archived.  This post is essentially the follow-on post to ‘How small…ocean’.

In the first re-write post in this series i took as an introduction the idea of undertaking longer voyages with smaller boats.  In…

How small and basic…cruiser.

Note to regular readers, this post is a complete re-write of a very early post of mine in the blog when i was just starting to write about boats, their owners and voyages that captured my interest.   Just recently i pasted a link to that old post into a relevant discussion thread on the Facebook sailing page but when i re-read my own post i realised what a messy and incomplete blogger i was in…