The Return of The Adventure 40
We have an approach from a credible team who have a plan to get the Adventure 40, a circumnavigation ready offshore sailboat for $US200,000, built.
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The Offshore Voyaging Reference Site
We have an approach from a credible team who have a plan to get the Adventure 40, a circumnavigation ready offshore sailboat for $US200,000, built.
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A cruising boat without adequate shade and ventilation can make life a living hell once we head for the palm trees. Here’s how to choose a cruising boat that will be comfortable in hot places.
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New boats are horribly expensive, so most of us will be faced with refitting an older boat to get out there. We have recently reorganized all of our many articles on how to do just that.
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Lessons we can learn from Jimmy Cornell’s Elcano Challenge when considering electric drive for a cruising sailboat.
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An interesting question from a member gets John thinking about how to handle headsail roller furling failures, and risk versus reward on a general basis.
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John takes a deep dive into the tradeoffs between open cockpits, dodgers, enclosures, raised salons and wheelhouses on offshore boats.
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A member asks an interesting question about why a boat that appears slower from the numbers is actually faster.
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AAC has a new faster server and four cool new features.
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These days the offshore sailing community seems to be fixated on rig automation, but a well-specified and installed set of winches will contribute far more to a successful passage than all that expensive failure-prone stuff.
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Good cockpit cushions are a lot more important on an offshore boat than you might think.
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Phyllis and I have been thinking and talking a lot about which boat we will buy after Morgan’s Cloud sells. And a big part of that has been setting a specification and budget, but in a different way.
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We have just installed a new site design, the product of two years of thinking, investigating and building. John shares our goals for the new design and details of what has changed.
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These days it seems like hardly a month goes by without the announcement of a new and/or improved safety device, aggressively marketed as the latest thing that we all must buy, to the point that it’s getting impossible to keep up. Here is how John decides which of these new technologies to put energy into understanding and which to ignore.
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There are few areas on any boat that are used for more diverse tasks than an offshore sailboat cockpit. Everything from lounging on a quiet day at anchor to handling a fast-moving emergency at sea with a bunch of sail up…in the black dark…in fog…with a ship bearing down on us.
Given that, picking a boat with a good cockpit layout is one of the most important parts of boat selection. Let’s look at what really matters.
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In Part 1 I looked at induction electric cooking and concluded that for most cruiser usage profiles, particularly for us live-to-eat types, propane was still a better solution, and greener, too. So what about liquid fuels Alcohol, Kerosene and Diesel? Let’s take a look.
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