The following is a guest post. The author is my past self. In many ways this essay was the first Tidal Life post, though years passed between writing it and beginning to publish this blog. I share it now because in it I wrote about my hope for the future – and the future has [...]
Tag Archives: Sailing
Two ways to get ready for spring sailing: Sailboats for Sale
Spring is just around the corner, with sailing season right behind. Are you ready? You say you don’t have a boat to sail this spring? Well I can fix that. I’ve got three and and can only keep one. So two of the Tidal Life sailboats are for sale – Nameless and Eternal Project. Nameless, [...]
Water Photo of the Week: Announcing Tidal Life Afloat
Regarding Launch Dates One of the categories for the new improved Tidal Life will be Tidal Life Afloat, lots more stuff about boats, boating, sails, sailing and getting places via the water. Above is a shot of where I’ll be writing from … though I hope she’ll be in the water at some point. Which [...]
Sailing on Adventuress – Part 3, with cookies
When an event starts with a safety talk there’s a good possibility that things could go sideways. Sure enough, as soon as we passengers were educated in one hand for the ship etc., Captain Evans went on to explain that getting started on our sailing afternoon was not going to be as easy as we’d [...]
Sailing on Adventuress – Part 2
Adventuress is a beautiful vessel, long and sleek and ship shape. For detail mongers, she’s a Gaff Topsail Two-masted Schooner measuring 133 feet from the tip of her bowsprit to the up tilted crown of her stern … for which there is probably a more accurate and saltier term. Her rig stands 110 feet [...]