As we got closer and closer there was a lot of ruminating on the best way to...
David Ryan
David Ryan is a boat builder and USCG licensed master captain. He is the owner of Sailing Montauk and skipper of Montauk''s charter sailing catamaran MON TIKI You can follow him on Twitter @CaptDavidRyan
A year ago I was a broken man. A year ago I had just concluded a week...
A little more than three years ago we got an inquiry from Yojani Hernandez of the NY LGTB...
Mon Tiki is a novel design, by which I mean she’s a departure from the glass reinforced...
We spend the last two days taking out all the screws and washers that held the plywood...
The glamour and excitement of boat-building. What I didn’t know is that our fearless leader Erik Kain...
On my January 1st post Affirmations and Aspirations, I said I hoped that by the end of...
From the Wikipedia entry: On September 1, 1951, as the Fisherman’s Special emptied its passengers, 62 fares...
You know, for skinning fish.
The stringers are the biggest change between the Tiki 38 as originally designed by James Wharran...
Once upon a time I drove a Honda Civic CX and I felt like a patriot.
From the Pacific Voyagers website. Emphasis mine: The vakas are financed with micro-lending and built, maintained and operated by...
About that watch, my father e-mails: Au contraire. It was purchased in 1956-7 from the PX on...
In the comment thread of a previous post I wrote that my objectives blogging at the League...
Per yesterday’s post, what 8 hours of boat building looks like.
This photo shows the starboard hull backbone, lined up on a zero mark (the blue tape), and...
(Previously, Parts 1,  2,  3 , 4,  5, 6, and 7) In the late-Ninties, after reading Dava Sobel’s Longitude I became semi-obsessed with the...
We made two of them today.
“The captain says the ship hit a reef that was not on the navigation charts.”
As told in my comment on the League’s What is Your Sputnik Moment thread, I don’t like...
