Sunday, March 31, 2013

A study in contrast...

Forty years and running, on how the new argument is as bad as the old one, and some rather depressing pictures of a ships graveyard...

Over at Cruisers Forum there's a thread about a sailboat with engine problems in the Bahamas needing to be towed back to Florida and various legal hassles. As things go, I came across that thread just after reading about an engineless Badger over at the Junk Rig Association website that had just completed a circumnavigation...

5th March 2013 - Alan Martienssen and engine-less Benford Dory 34 Zebedee (see the magazine cover above) have just completed their circumnavigation by arriving at Balboa after transiting the Panama Canal using a borrowed outboard. There's more about Zebedee here.

Kind of makes you think...

Listening to Chris Knight

So it goes...