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The Gary Underwood story – Under the radar

The Boating New Zealand magazine published an article back in September 2019 about Gary Underwood, the designer of Shoestring...

I have just found some new information regarding Thomas’ disappearance which I wrote about back in 2014 as the...

Today happens to be my birthday and I interestingly I happen to stumble upon a picture of one of...

…is not going to happen. I’ve thought about it a lot during the past two weeks, I’ve been studying...

First of all let me apologize for not updating this site in a very long time, it’s actually been...

Roger Scott has just put up his Shoestring for sale on JRA (edit: ad has been removed). Shoestring has...

In my last post I mentioned that I haven’t found any production boats in the max 36-37 ft range...

So, what’s been going on? Thinking, planning, dreaming. That’s pretty much it. No sailing whatsoever. I moved down to...

I’ve been a vegetarian since spring 2013, eating mostly vegan food (at home almost exclusively) mixed with some diary...

Just stumbled upon the following quote by Sterling Hayden: “To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must...