Tag: Sailing

(Part I) by B.J. Porter (Contributing Editor) If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you may have noted that I spent many years (about nine) living on a sailboat and traveling around in the world. I say “traveling around in the world” because our goal was never a circumnavigation, but to see as […]

by B.J. Porter (Contributing Editor) We started our kids on the water young, and they spent most summer weekends on the boat. They weren’t always into it every weekend, but we did our best to make it memorable and exciting. In the end, it was worth it because they still recall all those summer weekends […]

by B.J. Porter (Contributing Editor) Rigging comes in two forms – standing rigging, or that which is permanently fixed to the boat, and running rigging, which is the lines and other devices that can be easily removed and adjusted. Next month, we’ll talk about running rigging, because that has a whole mess of names too. […]