Down the Arkansas – Kerr to Dardanelle

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor.” — Mark Twain

Raising Sails – Part 6 – Welding in the Mast

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Every day I’m one step closer to sailing. But not today. Today I enjoy the work and the beautiful world around me. And that is more than enough. Have patience. Tomorrow will come and it will be better if I live fully present today. –Doug

Blowing the Crap out of the Head

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In the late-19th century, a London plumbing impresario named Thomas Crapper manufactured one of the first widely successful lines of flush toilets. Crapper did not invent the toilet, but he did develop the ballcock, an improved tank-filling mechanism still used in toilets today.

Propellers – Stainless, Aluminum, Composite – Diameter and Pitch

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SV Seeker is 65 tons and can move at 8 knots ( 9 mph ) but how much can she pull? What kind of power will she have for towing equipment, or running into rough seas? If you tied her to a tree with a scale to measure the pulling force, how much do you think it would be? Make your guess now, because we are going to find out.