Pages dedicated to the Columbia 43

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

A proper sailor's knife with some history

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My rigging knife has served me well for more than a quarter century. A friend asked me yesterday what I thought made a good rigging knif...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Winches aboard Oceanus: Barient, Barlow, Wilkie and Winchmate

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Some of the 12 winches aboard Oceanus from the largest to the smallest. Columbia Yachts built Oceanus in 1971 as a racing boat and the ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Driving for sails

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Kevin and Virginia at the helm of Skylark on San Diego Bay. Virginia and I had a great week driving for sails. We went from Newport, Ore...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Contentment: best word to describe living aboard

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A few weeks after we moved aboard we looked at each other and smiled. "What are you feeling right now?" I asked my wife. She thou...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Making big purchases at the Big Seattle Boat Show

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One of the most popular blog posts of last year was Making Big Decisions at the Big Seattle Boat Show  about last year's trip to the sho...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

2014's accomplishments for the Oceanus crew

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Hauling out Oceanus was only one of a list of accomplishments in 2014. 2014 was a seminal year for Virginia and me. We made several majo...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Merry Christmas!

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Our little nativity scene on our starboard deadlight is both lovely and space efficient. It has the added advantage of staying put when 50...