Not a lot more to say really.
John
Eric Klem, engineer, frequent and erudite commenter, and sailor, came up with some great thoughts on my Adventure 40 interior post. I started to address each of his concerns in the comments, but then it struck me that we had the basis of a good discussion on the inevitable compromises that must be made in [...]
Two weeks ago we rolled out our AAC Bookclub. Twenty eBooks on everything from battery care to storm survival (with more to come) for just $9.00 for the first year and $18.00 for subsequent years. I’m pleased to say that this seems to be a win, win: sign-ups have been coming in at a rate [...]
Three things that mean a lot to me are sailing, photography, and Arctic Norway, where Phyllis and I spent nearly three years on Morgan’s Cloud. After much thought, and not a little planning, I would like to personally share this magic combination with you.
Now we are getting to the really hard part of specifying the Adventure 40, the interior. Unlike most production boats where an interior is specified that will sell at a boat show and then a boat is designed around it, resulting in a poor sea boat, we have already specified the hull form and deck [...]
A lot of why we go voyaging is to see places. But are we really seeing or just looking? I’m working on seeing through photography.
I was just reading an article on the NMEA 2000 marine network standard over at the excellent Ocean Navigator blog. For those of you who are not aware, NMEA is a standard backbone cabling system that allows you to connect every piece of electronic gear on your boat together, regardless of what company manufactured each [...]
For years people have asked us to write a book on offshore voyaging. Our answer has always been, “we already have”. After all, there are some 650 posts on this site averaging around 1000 words each—about the size of War and Peace! But the problem with that answer is that no matter how well a [...]
A Race For Real Sailors My post on the rebuild of the Bluenose II attracted a good readership, so I’m thinking that some of you might be interested in learning more about the series of races that the original Bluenose was built to win. A series that was inspired by the desire of working schooner [...]
This post is a shameless plug for a friend. But what the hell, if you can’t abuse your position for a friend, who can you abuse it for? Shelly and Dave are live-aboard sailors on their beautiful, and beautifully maintained, Apogee 50 Cadence, currently headquartered at Charleston, South Carolina, where we met them the first [...]
Over the years I have been a member of several yacht clubs and I have enjoyed the benefits provided by these organizations and the opportunities to meet new people and make new friends. On the other hand, I have always been a little uncomfortable with the elitism that most yacht clubs imply by their requirements [...]
I’m working on the specification for the Adventure 40 interior arrangement and that process has got me thinking about what design criteria go into making a good voyaging boat interior. This is an area where I feel that I’m well qualified since, so far, I have spent approximately 30% of my 61-years living afloat and [...]
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My friend Wilson is the project manager of the “rebuild” of the Bluenose II, nearing completion in Lunenburg just a few minutes away from our base camp here in Nova Scotia. He was kind enough to give me a tour today.
I really enjoy running this web site. In fact, more and more each month. And one of the things that I have enjoyed lately is the participation of trained engineers like Eric, Chris, John and AAC Technical Correspondent, Matt Marsh. (If I have missed anyone, please speak up.) The cool thing about these engineers’ participation [...]
I sometimes suffer from an affliction I have come to call Gerbil Brain. I’m sure none of you are thinking that this refers to the size of my brain are you? No, I thought not.
Welcome to our first AAC Sponsor News, a series of posts that will appear about six times a year on what the companies that support this site are doing.
Just about the most common suggestion to improve the Adventure 40 that we receive is to fit some kind of electric or hybrid diesel/electric drive. And, I myself, up to a few years ago, thought that diesel electric would become a viable alternative for voyaging sailboats that would solve the age old problem of matching [...]
Question: How do you make great travel photographs? Answer: F8 and be there.
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We got up this morning to find a message from our security monitoring service, Sucuri, with the news that Attainable Adventure Cruising had been hacked. We immediately took the site down in case there was any risk involved to you, our readers. The good news is that there was not. The hack simply modified our [...]
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This morning we have a very exciting announcement from AAC-Labs, the research arm here at Attainable Adventure Cruising Ltd World Headquarters. After a six month intense project made possible by funding from the Government of Canada, The US National Science Foundation, and the European Union, we are pleased to announce the formulation of a set [...]
I have been thinking about safely a lot lately. I guess that stands to reason, given that I’m in the middle of a series of posts on person overboard prevention—not to speak of the fact that I had a very nasty accident a few months ago—and, up until a couple of days ago I was [...]
I have to admit, I have been procrastinating about writing posts about the Adventure 40 systems because this is the area where we will have to make some of the hardest and most unpopular decisions if we are going to produce a viable, reliable, fast, strong and comfortable offshore voyaging sailboat for less than US$200,000, [...]
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This story is apropos of not much at all, except that I think it’s amusing and I tell it at dinner parties where the audience seems to enjoy it. And, since I think of you, our readers, as friends and part of my community, I thought I would tell it here. Also, writing it makes [...]
It’s strange. I have never had any interest in recreational fishing. When other voyagers talk about the cool gear they have that always hooks a fish on an ocean passage and how good the catch was to eat, all I can think of is the mess on deck. It’s not that I don’t like to [...]
We are very happy to welcome Matt Marsh to the ranks of AAC writers.