While Lunacy was hauled out last June to have her new engine installed, I became aware of some other problems. The most perturbing ones concerned her rudder skeg, which is a rather high-aspect alum inum structure that is welded on to the main structure of her aluminum hull. Problem number one was that somehow, during...
This story begins in a dead flat calm somewhere between Bermuda and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, late last spring. Said dead calm is pictured here in all its glory. In all my years of wandering about the watery parts of our world, I swear I have never ever seen a stretch of open ocean quite as...
My current floating home of choice is a one-off aluminum cutter I purchased in the summer of 2006 from an active cruising couple, Bob and Carol Petterson, who commissioned the boat’s construction and launched her in 1985 . They cruised her extensively on the U.S. East Coast and in the Bahamas and also completed a...
