Aug
11
2008
I don’t normally flog merchandise, but Zac Sunderland’s family has t-shirts for sale on his site, to help raise money for his effort. So… make with the clicky and buy a few! Surely you know a bunch of cruisers who could use a new wardrobe item? What better than this?
http://www.qbaroo.com/zacsunderland/main.cfm?categoryoid=1
Tags: Education, family, intrepid, Sailing, Sea+Stories, Zac+Sunderland
Jun
05
2008
OK, this is hands-down ubercool. I mean, uber, ubercool. Zac Sunderland is organizing a circumnavigation, on his boat, the Intrepid, an Islander 36. (Surely that fact will at least goad Zen into commenting. =) . Check out his website and the NPR interview with him. The interview is pretty lame, frankly, since the interviewer [...]
Tags: Education, family, intrepid, Sailing, Sea+Stories, Zac+Sunderland
Feb
22
2008
Rather than spend this post whining about the fact that my long-awaited Birthday Sail plans have been put out of commission by another long stretch of rain and storms, I decided to go back and catch up on some of the material I’d collected over the warmer, sunnier, kinder days.
For boat kids, life is an [...]
Tags: art, family, living aboard, simplicity
Feb
06
2008
One of my friends recently sent me this link to an SFGate piece, “Small houses challenge our notions of need as well as minimum-size standards“. (Thanks, FR!). Go ahead and read it through, then come on back.
The house we lived in was ~1200 square feet, give or take. It’s considered to be small. Most [...]
Tags: clutter, downsizing, family, footprint, liberty, liveaboard, progress, simplicity