DIY = Do It Yourself! WARNING: If you believe that marine parts must come from a marine store this video will cause you pain and suffering. Consult your therapist before viewing.

There just ain’t many things more fun than messing about with boats. Especially when it comes to taking a 4-wheel drive transfer case and adapting it to your Allison 545 automatic transmission taken from an old school and letting it spin your DIY repaired Hundested variable pitch controlled DIY cast propellers in your 74 ft DIY motorsailer.

Them: You can’t put a 4-wheel dive gearbox in a boat.
That will never work.
It’s not made for it.
Us: Watch This.

A fascinating way to find the Center of Gravity on an odd-shaped object.

Once you start heading in the direction you want to go, you will meet others that will inspire you along the path. I met Monte.

You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight Anchor Zone!

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Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore. You may not see me tomorrow. — Bob Dylan

What a great practice day. Good friends, the Blue Angles, America’s cup boat; American Magic, steady wind, warm sun, and we only broke a couple of things.

Step one. Define the Problem. Sometimes means you have to actually see the problem.

If you never want to fail then simply do nothing or copy what someone else has done. If you really want to learn, then try something that has not been done. Accepting that you sometimes will fail is the price of doing something worth doing.

“Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonor. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve–slowing, slowing, and stalling once more–was no ordinary bird.” — Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull