Posted in Kuan Yin, Labrador, Sailboats, Sailing on Feb 21st, 2012
A low-tide solution An old-world technique avoided a budget-busting haulout by Dennison Berwick (First published in Good Old Boat, Nov/Dec 2011) All too often the easiest way to solve a problem in boating is to throw money at it. Finding less expensive solutions often calls for a little [...]
Posted in Kuan Yin, Labrador, Life Skills, Sailing on Dec 31st, 2011
How do you respond to delays and setbacks? Voyage to Ungava 10 (3 of 3) However much we might want to keep putting a smile on things, we can all sink into deep lethargy and depression when all that seems to happen every day is for yet more problems to arrive. What to do then? [...]
Posted in Kuan Yin, Labrador, Life Skills, Sailboats, Sailing on Dec 30th, 2011
How to keep smiling in the face of endless problems Voyage to Ungava 10 (2 of 3) It was towards the end of July before I was finally able to leave Englee and head north. By then it was already too late in the summer to consider trying to get north in Labrador. It’s not [...]
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Posted in Kuan Yin, Labrador, Life Skills, Sailboats, Sailing on Dec 9th, 2011
Staying happy in the face of endless delays How to keep smiling in the face of endless delays and discouragement Voyage to Ungava 9 – first of 3 Few situations are more frustrating than endless delays when you’re trying to move ahead with an important project. Each little delay may seem petty in itself and [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Labrador, Sailing on Aug 20th, 2011
Slideshow: Fullscreen: Download: What do you call a multitude of icebergs? A school of icebergs? A gathering? (Enjoy the photos and see my suggestion further down the story.) Last week I was privileged to travel with friend Nelson Pilgrim among one of the most impressive parades of icebergs every seen outside the Arctic or Antarctic [...]
Posted in Labrador, Life Skills, Sailing on Jan 16th, 2011
No-one sails alone – not even singlehanders on sailboats. The truth of this is obvious when you think about it – and singlehanders are probably more aware of this paradox than most. What do I mean? We may do many things on our own, but they are rarely accomplished without the cooperation and active support [...]
If you’ve ever wondered what’s involved in refitting a sailboat, please take a few minutes to watch my new slideshow of the work done on Kuan Yin. Soon after buying the 32-foot Tahitiana, in 1995, I realized that I would not be able to live on the boat without at least a major cosmetic overhaul. [...]
The sailing season is over for this year, at least for Kuan Yin and myself. After getting delayed in May in Rimouski, Quebec, I had a great summer sailing along the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and finally reached Labrador soon after “post-tropical storm” Earl passed our way. No damage but a [...]
View of “Kuan Yin” from the top of the main mast. Fall comes fast the farther north you go in Canada. And the weather changed dramatically right after Hurrican Earl (post-tropical storm Earl) passed through while I was alonghside the wharf in La Tabatiere, on the North Shore of the Gulf of the St. Lawrence [...]
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