When I lived in the Thames/Coromandel district, I built a boat and lived on it for a few seasons.
I bought the hull in an unfinished state, and was told when I got it that a fisherman in the West Coast designed it. It was a nice little bilge keeler - a sixteen-foot cabin boat that […]

There’s a whole bunch of turkeys out there.
“Your call may be recorded for quality control purposes”. Do they really think that we’re that thick? You are really recording the phone call so that you have a record in case of dispute or trouble in the future. We know it and you know that we know […]