This is Peanut, my new 20′ Cruising Pedal boat! I don’t know much about the history of *this* boat, but the first one built to this same design, “Blue Skies”, did some serious Voyaging. The designer, Paul Gartside, says: Bill Hayward built his “Blue Skies” from this plan and took her 7000 Miles from the […]

In 2021 I travelled north to Alaska, Solo, for the first time aboard a Ranger 29 sailboat named Easy Rider: this article was lost for a while and recently found! I had done some work to the boat and departed from Pender Harbour, on the sunshine coast of BC, bound northwards. May 15-18: Freil Falls […]

Leaving from Cagliari, Sardinia, our planned destination was not originally Palma, Mallorca, but Valencia Spain. Another passage filled with the lumpy upwind sailing typical of the Med in Winter and a late night jib sheet breaking left us with no Jib about halfway, and so we decided to take a hard right and make an […]

After about a week of boat work, made more challenging and fun by the fact that nobody aboard “42” spoke fluent Italian and so part trips were a muddle of google translate and miming (Just try to mime “Black water pump” or “3/8 line clutch”. It’s not easy!), we headed out of the harbour and […]

Meeting up with a sailboat in the middle of a delivery is a tricky bit of timing to get right. The owners of “42”, John and Becca, had started out from Cyprus in mid November and were hoping for a fast passage to the other end of the Mediterranean. But as everyone knows, new-to-you boats […]

I’ve always wanted to cross an ocean, but the preparations of Finch have taken longer than I imagined! So when a friend from R2AK purchased a lightweight, all carbon catamaran and needed help crossing the Atlantic, I was more than eager to drop everything (again) and hop on board! Sailing Vessel “42” (named after the […]