Punta Arenas, the southernmost city on earth.

There are settlements at Ushuia and Porto Williams, but they’re quite small, P A is a city of close to 150 thousand. While the air temperature is ok, probably around 16/18 degrees, the wind chill factor is fierce.  That wind cuts like a knife, and today it...

Blog from Argentina

Well. The Boot Brothers are at it again, off on an adventure.  You’ll recall that they tend to get into trouble if they’re allowed to go off on their own so I make sure to go with them. “Lacey”, that’s the one that fits on my left foot, is very outgoing, he’s the...

Getting close to the big day

“The big day” being next Wednesday.  Its Sunday morning here and I’ve still a lot to get done before we fly out to Chile to meet up with Howard, David of Lutra Productions, Sophia who will travel south from Santiago to Punta Arenas to be our...

Upcoming travel. Sailing, and boatbuilding.

Its past time to put up more posts here, I’ve been a bit preoccupied of late, yes its happened before and will probably happen again. But Howard Rice’s adventure is coming up, Denny and I will be heading out on the big silver bird to meet up with him in Chile,  ( many...

Its nearly summertime here.

Supporting oneself with the income from plans sales is not easy.  I watch the others in this field and note that pretty much all of them do the design work and plans sales as either part of a larger business that might include doing survey work, or boatbuilding,...