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Our Cruising Sailboat Buyer’s Guide!
It’s Annapolis Sailboat Show season once again! We thought it would be fun to create a video with guidance on how relatively new buyers can select the right cruising sailboat given their sailing objectives.
Editor’s note: around the 40 minute mark the audio has a mistake: the Island Packet 485 does not have a bobstay (although should be used around the bow as a result of the cleats’ location).
Interested in any of these models? Our reviews are linked here:
Not a cruising boat, but: J/88
Summer 2023 Photos & Video
Here’s a dump of some fun photos and videos from this summer living aboard Blue Moon!
After A Summer Living Aboard, What Do We Think of The Sabre 38 MKII?
We are back in Annapolis! The summer was so busy between our cruise south, meeting friends in multiple locations, and work firing up again for me that I just didn’t have an ounce of bandwidth for blogging. But we’re back home now and getting back into a more normal routine. So lets blog!
Continue reading After A Summer Living Aboard, What Do We Think of The Sabre 38 MKII?Move Aboard Day!!
I arrived last evening with a rental car full of galley equipment, provisions, tools and clothes and I’m dodging rain showers getting it all aboard here in Northwest Harbor Maine!
I Just Published Both of My Books!
By Rich
Have any of my blog readers watched the HBO series Succession?
In addition to blogging, for the last couple of years I have been working on two manuscripts that I published to Kindle this week, because my family history is essentially the real-world version of the Succession TV series. And yes, as difficult as it may be to believe, every word of these narratives is 100% true.
First up is The Poisoned Well. My discovery of a financial scandal in my immediate family was one of the top 10 most read stories for Norway’s largest newspaper last year, and in this volume I tell it in its entirety:
Link to full details: https://a.co/d/7MUMRMV
The story was such big news because my maternal grandfather was a super controversial figure whose billion-dollar empire nearly collapsed the entire Norwegian economy when it imploded in the 1970s. So I decided to write the first biography about him ever written in English!
In this second book, follow along as he does great things for his country, but takes massive financial risks that catch up with him and eventually gets turned in to the government by his own daughter for a huge tax fraud he had been hiding. After his death, his creditors chase his heirs’ shell corporations and secret trusts all over the globe trying to recover hundreds of millions of dollars he had hid in tax havens while the heirs live it up in Sardinia, London, and Monte Carlo. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Full details here: https://a.co/d/0V8kvGg
Happy weekend reading for those who are interested!
They’re Getting Her Ready!
By Rich
Hinckley has taken our baby out of the shed and put on her new name graphics! The rig is set to be stepped in the next week or so. We couldn’t be more excited as we draft a list of items to drive up for the move aboard in the third week of June.
Gearing Up With New Ground Tackle!
By Rich
We are gearing up up for our late June arrival in Maine to start the 2023 summer season aboard our new baby: Sabre 38 MKII #12, Blue Moon! First on my short list of gear to upgrade: her ground tackle! She came with a 35lb CQR anchor, 75 feet of chain, and 150′ of brand new rode. Not bad, but for ground tackle I won’t settle for less than the absolute best I can get! We LOVE to be at anchor and enjoy it all the more if we can feel snug and secure in big winds.
The majority of Sabres born during Blue Moon’s era were delivered with CQR anchors, so hers is likely original. Our Sabre 42 came with a 45lb CQR, so I have a lot of experience with this design. Today the CQR is considered something of an antique compared to more modern designs like the Rocna, although I think the armchair internet “experts” often exaggerate the differences in performance between various anchor designs. To hear the online pundits tell it, CQR users should run for a marina if the forecast exceeds 10 knots of wind, while Skip Novak is happy to ride out a gale with his:
Two Sabres Riding Out A Christmas Gale
By Rich
Here is a photo of two 80s Sabres riding out yesterday’s winter gale here in Annapolis. I am very glad our little 38′ is warm and cozy indoors in Maine!
How The Sabre 38 MKII Became My Dream Boat And Why It Took Me Almost 30 Years To Buy One
By Rich
I finally bought a Sabre 38 MKII, the boat I decided was my ideal all the way back in 1994 while I was still in college. The story of how and why I chose the 38 MKII – and why haven’t owned one before now – begins over a decade before that, in the early 1980s, before the Sabre 38 MKII had even been designed.
When I was a small child, my parents bought our first family boat – a brand new Pearson 36 which was newly delivered in the early / mid 1970s. She was later traded in for a new Pearson 40 my parents had built in 1979. The 36 was a very nice sailing boat and very stylish, but not ruggedly constructed. The Pearson 40 was also marketed as a raceable cruiser, but my parents were sold on the promise of its expanded open-ocean capabilities. Unfortunately the blue water sales pitch exceeded the boat’s capabilities, as we discovered the hard way.
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