Way For A Sailor

With all due fanfare, the video of my canoe misadventure (a video version of the previous 3 blog posts) is finally done!  If you're curi...

and, it continues...  I had driven Manu’iki’iki up onto the raft of dead marsh grass to prevent being swept out into the Atlantic's cha...

My entire second day on the narrow spit of sand dangling south from Little Tybee was spent in a howling wind from the north. I scoured the b...

Shipwrecked! Working at Fleetwood’s boat shop (aka “WBG Marine”) is to exist inside an alternate reality. Down a dirt road, behind a gate, a...

The Back Story While on the M/V Matson Manukai in 2015, I had the idea that designing and building a boat and heading down the coast of Geor...

We steamed northeast from Darwin, Australia, crossing the point where the equator meets the international date line, a transit so dull I no ...

I brought in two good ahis—a 30-lb "big-eye" and a whopping 50-plus lb yellowfin that two other sailors had to help me bring aboa...

When I flew home from my 115 days aboard the Kamokuiki, I needed 5 days on a class 1 ship to get a year's health insurance for me and mi...

We departed Kwajalein for Guam- I guess my reckoning in my last post about what to do with a ship full of empty containers was right on tha...

Things change. Rapidly. The last captain and chief mate went down the gangway without saying goodbye or exchanging contact info with anyone....