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Barnacle Bill magazine
A subscription wont break your bank and you'll get exceptional value for money. There is a good team of contributors and an enthusiastic and knowledgeable editor so its going to be a good read. Its...
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Annie Hill, update.
For background to this post refer to my post dated Oct 29thI called in on Annie Hill today, in part because I was in the area for an engineering job and wanted a break before I drove the 2 hours or so...
View ArticleChristmas greetings and a couple of other things.
With Christmas still happening in many parts of the world, I'd like to wish everyone all the best for the festive season and a happy new year.Advertising, this blog is running at about 10K page views a...
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Made the spars for SEI today.
The spars for SEI are simple rectangular sections with rounded corners, sure they're tapered but only in one plane. Easy stuff.I’ve already got the mast done fiberglassed with a glass sleeve material...
View ArticleHappy New Year to all
As I write, sitting in my bunk watching the sun set over the estuary, its 8 15 pm on New Years Eve. Traditionally a time of good wishes to all, a time for making resolutions about what will or will...
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Painting her bottom, and other places.
Owning any big boat is like a race, more or less like the tortoise and the hare in fact. The hare, that’s the owner, is trying to stay ahead of the maintenance of the ship, while the maintenance needs...
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That was a bit of an adventure. I’ve put the old ship on a scrubbing grid a couple of times, but having her in the marina yard perched so high up that I could comfortably walk under her was a...
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Progress from Annie Hill, a report about SIBLIM.
A visit to the heaquarters of the SIBLIM club.Credit to Paul Gilbert for the photos, much better than my own amateurish efforts. Thanks Paul.For those new to the acronym above, that stands for “Small...
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I've been out having little adventures.
Last week I took the ship out up to Kawau Island, about 2 hours away by sea, visited friends their then went to meet up with the beginning of the Kiwi Raid at Sandspit. I was the “baggage barge” for...
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On the ( metaphorical ) road again, heading for more small boat sailing...
The brotherhood of the travelling boots.Its occurred to me that the hikers boots that I’m wearing have been to seven different countries so far, they’re good friends the two of them, get along well...
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We’re staying at a little hostel in Valparaiso, Javier the host is great. A young man who came to stay at the hostel and liked it so much he bought the place, he’s made it a place of low cost and...
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Santiago, a hot day and we're travelling tonight.
Today Howard and I have been walking the town looking at the sights, there are some very grand buildings, lots of parks and fountains. Its a seriously hot day by my standards, probably around 35 deg...
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Wooden Boatbuilding in Castro, Chiloe, Chile!
Well, the Boot brothers have been doing a lot of walking, together of course, you’ll rarely find them apart from each other. I went along with them, it keeps them out of trouble you know.We’ve been...
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A complete boat this time, not just a frame. Still in Chile.
The travelling boots have been doing a lot of exploring, I went with them of course, it wouldnt pay to let them go by themselves, you never know what sort of trouble they’d get into.We’ve had some...
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More on those little coastal freighters
And other things.More on “those boats”. We’e been to Puerto Varas today, the main town on a major lake near here. Its very different to the larger city nearby where we’re staying, clean and tidy, the...
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More ships, but this time its a graveyard
A graveyard of dreams and ships. These are Cape Horners, there are the remains of wrecks all along this shore, skeletal remains sticking up out of clear frigid water, ships that came this far and...
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Punta Arenas, a fable for most people.
Punta Arenas, when we read cruising stories, or those tales from the round the world yacht races, or old Joshua Slocums book it seems a place of mystery and dreams. But now we're here, its very real....
View ArticleA good day.
Its been a very good day today.One of the jobs that we’d come here to Punta Arenas to do was to contact the appropriate people in the Armada de Chile, ( navy) and discuss with them the upcoming voyage...
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Punt Arenas
Its been a real scramble the last few days so I've not been able to post, but its catchup time.So here is a short post and some pics from our days in Punta Arenas.Punta Arenas, what a place. The...
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Long Steps, the build is about to begin.
Time to get back to work, on the blog at least as I’ve been very busy on other things. I got home from Chile to find a pile of work stacked up and waiting for my attention .The engineering work that...
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