Long Steps, a preview

I think that I’ve mentioned before, that in my plans range we have “Tread Lightly” which came from a little poem about how we should treat the earth on which we walk (metaphor), and “Walkabout” which is an English language word for the spiritual wanderings of the...

A look at my Pilgrim design.

Pilgrim. Its Thursday today, here in New Zealand anyway as we get the new day before anyone else.  I’ve promised myself that I’d do my best to get a post up here every Thursday, even if its not about a major happening, so here goes today. Dinghy cruising is a...

Boatbuilders skills course

Ran it last weekend. We had a great time!  I enjoyed the happy, friendly group of guys I had here for the weekend, there were lots of laughs, a lot of pertinent questions, they paid attention, learned well, were apt pupils and good company.  The little...

Lazy day. So here are some videos to watch.

It was one of those days today. Nice autumn weather, lots of chores still outstanding but I figured that I had better things to do. Instead, Denny and I went out for a drive to explore an area that we’d not seen before,  walked our dogs in a marvellous patch of...

Long Steps, the build is about to begin.

Time to get back to work, on the blog at least as I’ve been very busy on other things.  I got home from Chile to find a pile of work stacked up and waiting for my attention. The engineering work  that helps finance my lifestyle has grown due to one of the very few...

Punta Arenas

Its been a real scramble the last few days so I’ve not been able to post, but its catchup time. So here is a short post and some pics from our days in Punta Arenas. Punta Arenas, what a place.  The people here have been unfailingly friendly and helpful,...