Sailing Solo around Casco Bay in Maine.  Here I am at the end of the Race.  Wet, exausted, and happy to be done!  This was a fun adventure type race.  Around the islands, no support and self run and timed.  If you know about the types of sailing I like to do, this was just

This weekend Im going to participate in the Casco Bay Circumnavigation Race. This is the first year that this race has been run by the GMORA (Gulf of Maine Ocean Racing Association). This race popped up on one of my feeds that I follow about sailing and I knew right away that I would have

I had been looking for a low cost alternative for Radio based AIS over web based AIS and this device is the best thing I have uncovered yet for low cost AIS. This is a “Socotran Net Locator”. It’s designed to attach to fishing nets and transmit their location so commercial fishing fleets can easily

Pitting in the aluminum. When I hauled Triumph out of the ocean in Rhode Island last week, I did my usual inspection for corrosion and wear. That’s when I noticed the aluminum plates on the rudder showing a bit of pitting. Nothing catastrophic—just something I had already seen before launching this spring—but it’s not the

Using a self contained Solar Generator on a Boat When I first decided to do the wiring on Triumph; My Astus 20.2 Trimaran-  I wanted to do it in a way that was going to be easy and reliable.  In researching ideas and products I really liked the Echo Flow River 2 portable power system.