My first time sailing Slipper, I was somewhat discouraged by her reluctance to tack, or at least, her reluctance compared to Slider, my 16 foot open beachcruiser. So, my first attempt at making her a snappier tacker was to cut a lot of area from the big skegs I installed to support the barn door [...]
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Honu Is Launched!
Slider’s first sistership hit the water for the first time on Saturday, February 20th, 2010. Dean Pacetti built Honu (Polynesian for turtle) at his home in Florida. I should mention that Dean was the second person to buy plans for Slider. At the time Dean bought his plans, I’d only completed half [...]
Dean’s Build
Dean Pacetti has sent me some more pictures of his build, which is nearing completion.
One excellent change he made in the plans was to add toerails to the fore and aft decks. I thought about doing this, but eventually decided I was too lazy. But I think it increases safety at very little [...]
Decisions, decisions– progress on Slipper’s beam attachments
As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been a little unwell lately, but I’m getting better, and it’s way past time to get back to work on Slipper, my ultrasimple little cartop cat.
The beams are largely complete, except for the stuff needed to connect the beams to the hulls, and here is where I’ve been floundering in a [...]
If I were a boatbuilder
There was a while back an excellent discussion going on in the Woodenboat Forum, a debate on the possibility of making a living from building small wooden boats. I assume that it can be done, since there are a number of boat shops now that do that kind of work, and some have been [...]
Why Slider is a Black Swan
A couple of years ago, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote an influential book called The Black Swan– The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Last fall I reviewed the book for Living Aboard magazine.
It’s a complex book, but it deals primarily with the fact that the future will always be stranger than we can guess, in [...]
