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We pride ourselves in making well fitting covers. These are usually always given personal attention on board. We will visit your yacht to measure up or take a pattern to ensure a perfect fit, then revisit to install the cover on board.

Our covers are manufactured in acrylic canvas for Sprayhoods, sail covers and spray dodgers. For winter covers and larger heavy duty boat covers Topgun a durable polyester fabric is used.

About our Sprayhoods

The frames can be jointed for ease of stowing. The frames are set up to the desired shape and patterned over, to produce a polythene duplicate of what is required. This means that you can see the hood and or enclosure before it’s made up in the fabric and make sure that windows and doors etc are where they are best suited for your use on board.

We then return to the boat to install the covers, to align fasteners and correctly tension the hood.

Winter Covers, Sail Covers and Dodgers

Winter covers are usually made to measure, fitted once for rig slots, mooring line access, doors and areas of chafe reinforced. We return to install finally ensuring the boats well wrapped up for the winter.

Sail Covers and Dodgers

Sail covers and dodgers are made out of a breathable acrylic canvas, allowing the sail to breathe when under cover. Coated fabrics are not used for this application as they can encourage mildew and rub off. Coated fabrics are only used where maximum water resistance is required.

Please remember that we also valet and reproof all types of covers as part of our valeting service. Regular valeting will ensure your covers are checked and prepared for the coming seasons giving you the maximum life out of your investment.

All our covers carry a three year guarantee against failure in materials and workmanship.

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Quality Sprayhoods supplied and fitted in the southwest

Here at Armada Sails we supply, fit and service sprayhoods for all types of traditional and modern boats. These must-have item for any boat are perfect to help keep the cockpit dry and comfortable, whether its crashing through big waves out at sea or simply keeping the rain out in the marina.

All of our quality sprayhoods are made-to-order using high quality and durable fabrics. With a wide range of colours available, we can ensure to match existing canvas work and find that colour that really suits your needs.

Our High Quality Sprayhoods

• All our sprayhoods include:
• Onboard patterns are taken to ensure exact production
• Quality UV resistant window material comes as standard
• Sprayhood fixings made of quality marine grade stainless steel or plastic
• Where viable we reuse your existing boat fittings (unless the position is unsuitable)
• Manufactured to fit your existing frame or new frame can be supplied
• Frame bar pockets come zipped for ease of removal
• Hood can be tensioned at the rear with integral webbing straps
• Breathable and waterproof fabric
• Optional extras include aft grab rails which can also be leathered on request

Sprayhoods require exact measurements and patterning which is why here at Armada sails we are here to help every step of the way. With specifications and use discussed in detail and patterning carried out on board a new Sprayhood couldn’t be easier. Just   give us a call  or email to discuss what it is your looking for.

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For a free no obligation quote, call us on  07455 019 643 or send us an email.

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A sprayhood is a vital component on a boat which allows the sailor to be protected from spray from the sea. Browse our quality range of sprayhood tracks and fittings which are specially designed for durability and longevity. Kayospruce provide a range of fittings, kits, and tools for this project to ensure ease of application.

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Track End Stops - Black (TRA212 + TRA236)

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Here at Sail and Cover...

...we specialise in high quality made-to-measure boat covers, spray hoods, dodgers, stac systems, sail covers, Biminis, tonneau covers in fact ANY covers for your boats whether sail or power. We make sails, and have a great repair facility for fast turn arounds for both sails and covers. We undertake upholstery and much, much more! We were previously based on the UK East Coast at Woolverstone Marina on the River Orwell, but have now relocated to a new facility at Farthing Road Industrial Estate, in Ipswich, so that we are able to keep pace with our ever expanding workload. All of our products are tailor made to your specific requirements and as part of our service, and we continue to offer an on-board consultation.

Care For Your Sails & Covers

• Cleaning - removal of harmful salty deposits and fungal growth (and to make them look good!)
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• UV Protection Strips - to protect and prolong the life of your rolling headsail
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Covers to Meet Your Requirements

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• Offering protection to your boat and crew.
• As plain or as wacky as you wish!

Of course we don’t just make sails and boat covers, we have the facilities to make almost anything. This year for instance we have made Hot tub covers, various Shades for architectural purposes, swimming pool covers, gazebos, strange tepee type covers, stage props etc etc. We are able to quote and manufacture Stac Pacs, Sail Covers, Dodgers and Dinghy covers, by using our downloadable forms. Please go to our enquiry page for details - distance is no longer a problem!

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With a choice of cockpit cover to overall covers, we can talk you through the best option for your Drascombe. Our canvas man has been making our covers for around 40 years, and we have now moved forward with the Weathermax 80 as an option. Along with covers and overalls, we can supply tents to suit those who would like more of an adventure, along with cushions and in-fills to ensure you are comfortable when sleeping aboard.

Cockpit covers.

This cover fits at side bench level & requires lacing hooks screwed to the side decks close up to the gunwhale around the boat.

Overall Covers

The Overall Cover is sometimes referred to as the winter cover. It fits over the gunwhale cappings & down the sides of the boat by a few inches. By doing this it protects all the woodwork.

These Sprayhoods are available for the Dabber, Lugger, Longboat and Coaster in Acrylic Canvas or Weathermax

Cockpit Tents

A full camping tent is available for the open boats (except the Dabber). It encloses the whole of the cockpit & is supported on a set of bendy poles (these are NOT included in the price). It has a collar that laces around the mast, sleeves for the poles & an opening back panel with Velcro closures.

D22 Sprayhood and Tent

The Cockpit Cover is a welcome addition for when your boat is on a mooring. The Sprayhood and frame is included in the standard spec.

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• Designer: David Hillyard
• Builder: David Hillyard
• Location: Dorset
• Length on deck: 37'
• Tonnage: 12TM

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37’ bermudan sloop 12 ton Hillyard built in 1960 by David Hillyard of Littlehampton.

Major refits in 1993 and 2004 covered a lot of serious jobs and were all well documented.  Currently on the water but in need of some work to bring her back up to scratch.  In the present ownership she has new sails (2015 AND 2020), standing rigging (2017), re-wired (2017), rebuilt engine (2022) and new navigation equipment (2019)

Very practical and comfortable design of yacht with 6 good berths in 3 separate cabins and a large safe central cockpit.  These boats are not going to win races but they will look after the crew and get them around in safety and comfort.

This 12 ton model is far less common than some of the other Hillyards and is a good compromise of length and volume.

Length on deck                 37’

Beam                                    9’6”

Draft                                      5’

Thames Tonnage             12TM

Construction

• Carvel planked in mahogany copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers.  Every second timber is laminated to double thickness.
• Oak back bone and deadwoods with an external cast iron ballast keel.  Fastened with iron bolts, 5 replaced in 2004.  1.25 tons of internal iron ballast as is common with Hillyards.
• Oak floors across the centreline fastened through the planking with large copper rivets.
• Marine plywood deck sheathed externally in epoxy glass cloth.  Deck all new in 1993.
• Varnished mahogany toe rail carried on the galvanised stanchion bases as is common on most Hillyards.  Iroko rubbing strake all round.
• Fore and aft coachroof with centre cockpit that is enclosed with a canvas sprayhood and cover.  Varnished mahogany coachroof coamings with bronze portlights.
• Coachroof decks of marine plywood sheathed in epoxy glass cloth.  Varnished mahogany hand rails.
• Cockpit is very deep, safe and sheltered.  Thwart locker either side with the engine space below the cockpit sole.
• Wheel steering positioned on the aft cockpit bulkhead with cables to the rudder quadrant.
• Sliding mahogany doors into the fore and aft accommodation.  Spray hood and cover on a stainless frame make the cockpit totally enclosed.
• Masthead Bermudan sloop rig on a deck stepped varnished mast.  In usual Hillyard fashion the mast is square hollow section and was new in 2011.
• Varnished wooden roller reefing boom operated by a lever and ratchet mechanism at the goose neck.
• Stainless steel standing rigging all new in 2017 to external galvanised chain plates.
• Furlex 304S roller reefing headsail system fitted new in 2015.
• Mainsail new in 2020 from Quay Sails, Poole.  Genoa new in 2015 from Quay Sails, Poole.
• Mainsail cover new in 2012 from Quay Sails, Poole.
• Volvo Penta MD22L 55hp 4cyl fresh water cooled diesel engine installed new in 2001.  Rebuilt by Purbeck Marine in September 2022.
• Single lever controls with a centreline stainless shaft to a fixed 3 blade bronze propeller.
• 70 gallon stainless steel fuel tank port side in the engine space.
• 3 x 12 volt batteries charged from the engine alternator.
• 75 gallon galvanised water tank to starboard in the engine space.
• Boat largely re-wired in 2017.

Accommodation

• All berths are 6’ + with more than 6’ head-room in the saloon, slightly less in the aft cabin. Varnished mahogany joinery all through.
• V-berths in the fore cabin, chains and stowage forward.   Exposed ship’s side, varnished mahogany bunk boards and joinery, scrubbed pine sole boards.   Good head-room under the fore hatch which also gives light to the cabin.
• Duck down through centre-door in the bulkhead to the saloon cabin.  Generous width settee berths each side.  The stbd berth has a trotter box under a locker against the bulkhead.
• Large locker in the port side forward corner.
• Gas fired Force 10 cabin heater against the forward bulkhead with flue to deck.
• Varnished mahogany double drop leaf table.
• Lockers behind the settee berths and stowage below.  Pine cabin sole boards.
• Chart desk in the after port corner with a gas/12v fridge below.
• The galley in the after stbd corner has been rebuilt with stainless steel sink, 2-burner stainless steel gas hob let into the work surface.
• Good locker space below.  Recess stowage against the ship’s side.   Manual pump over the sink which drains overboard.
• Steps up to a centre-line sliding door to the cock-pit.
• Stbd off-set sliding door and steps down into the comfortable and surprisingly spacious aft cabin with generous V-berths.  Hanging locker in the fwd stbd corner by the door.
• Heads compartment in the forward port corner with Blake sea toilet, porcelain hand basin and locker behind the heads under the side deck.
• Steering compass
• Standard Horizon Eclipse DSC VHF radio, 2019
• Raymarine depth sounder
• Raymarine chart plotter, 2017
• Raymarine radar, 2017
• 35lb CQR anchor with 15 fathoms of chain
• 25lb Danforth anchor with 30 fathoms of warp
• Manual anchor windlass
• Auto electric bilge pump
• Manual bilge pump
• Bunk and berth cushions
• Isotherm fridge
• Galley sink
• Galley gas hob
• Baby Blake sea toilet
• Furlex 304S roller reefing headsail system
• Sprayhood and cockpit cover combined

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September 5th 2022

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'Bonobo' , a Moody 346 for Sale by owner Richard Johnson

'Bonobo' our Moody 346 is berthed in Weymouth (UK) for the winter where she is up for sale. We are offering FREE berthing there until 31st March 2025.

'Bonobo' is a classic heavy cruiser from the renowned Moody stable being designed by Bill Dixon. One of only 254 Moody 346's were built between '86 and '90, so she's one of the last ones built!

Shining bright white GRP hull. The perfect white  deck has an integral grained non-slip surface in grey. 'Bonobo'  is  still looking fresh and desirable.

Maintained to a high standard, very original and has been very lightly used, this Moody 346 is the perfect family cruiser. 'Bonobo' has great accommodation, two accommodation cabins and very respectable inventory.

She was built 1989, owned for 2 years during which we added only 10 hours sailing time.

BASIC SPECS Length Overall: 34'5" (10.49m) Beam: 11'8" (3.56m) Draft: 5'0" (1.52m) Heads: 1 Cabins: 2 Berths: 7 Keel: Fin Keel

ACCOMMODATION 6-7 berth, in 2 double cabins and saloon.

• Teak interior finish and attractive grey/blue upholstery;
• Cabin heating with 3 vents (full service kit Oct '23);
• Teak and holly floor, some signs of use;
• Clock and barometer;
• Surround sound Hi-Fi system in saloon and cockpit.

FORWARD CABIN A comfortable room with two single berths which can be converted to a double.

• Underneath the berths are generous lockers;
• Stowage space is also provided around the ship's sides;
• To the starboard side is a good sized hanging locker;
• Large opening hatch is fitted in the deckhead for ventilation and emergency exit;
• Side light;
• The fitting-out is in teak with carpets on the floor.

SALOON The light, airy saloon has a U-shaped settee to starboard with a single settee berth opposite.

• The centrally mounted table folds out to the complete width of the saloon giving ample room for families and entertaining;
• Underneath the settees are two water tanks and stowage space;
• Lockers and further stowage areas are fitted along the ship's sides;
• The cabin is fitted out in teak with blue/grey upholstery and teak and holly flooring; 
• 2 tannoy vents;
• Chart table;
• TV - supplied but not fitted.

HEADS Portside.

• Marine toilet Jabasco (new Aug '22);
• Black water pipe replaced Dec '23.

GALLEY To starboard, L-shaped.

• Twin stainless steel sinks with mixer taps, hot and cold water;
• Plastimo Neptune Atlantic gimballed two burner gas cooker with grill and oven;
• Fold-away worktop cooker cover;
• Top opening fridge;
• Further high and low ample storage space and lockers for crockery, food and utensils.

AFT CABIN A real bonus for a boat this size. Very usable and plenty of room to move about! Access is through the passageway from the saloon and galley.

• Passageway has two hanging lockers, one for wet and one for dry, and large access to the engine room;
• Remarkably spacious with a full sized double berth to port;
• Hanging locker;
• Vanity unit with inset sink complete with hot and cold water tap;
• Under and behind seat stowage.

• The large centre cockpit has seating on all sides with high coamings for protection and comfort;
• To port is a large cockpit locker with sufficient room for all necessary gear;
• Access to other side of engine;
• To port is a self-contained fully draining gas locker with 2 gas bottles, plus a spare;
• Steering pedestal, navigation and engine instruments, engine controls, two stainless steel grab handles to companionway, console over companionway hatch for navigational instruments;
• Extra cushions;
• Slot-in Teak leaf table.

• Thornycroft T80 - 35 hp four cylinder marine diesel, engine serviced April '23, (reconditioned gearbox installed Feb '22);
• Engine and engine room in immaculate condition;
• 35 gallon fuel capacity;
• 3 blade feathering Kiwi prop;
• Engine instruments include: Tachometer, oil pressure gauge, water temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge, engine charging warning light;
• Light fan and power point in engine bay.

• 240v shore power;
• 12v electrics;
• Victron Blue Smart IP22 Charger (installed Nov '23);
• 1 domestic battery;
• 1 starter battery (replaced Oct '23);
• All lights bulbs changed to LED (Aug '23).

• Hot water calorifier with mains immersion.
• 40 gallon water capacity.
• Kemp (Seldon) Silver anodised aluminium spars;
• Mast with mainsail and foresail halyard winches and cleats, spinnaker eye and pad for spinnaker winch;
• Boom with slab reefing system including winch, reefing eyes and jammers;
• Main sheet traveller and jamming cleat;
• 2 genoa tracks on side deck with sliders, blocks and turning blocks;
• Kemp Furlex furling forestay system;
• Stainless steel standing rigging;
• Tidy running rigging.
• Furling genoa.
• Spare genoa.
• Stack pack and lazy jacks.
• Cruising snuffer and chute.
• 1 x Lewmar 40 self-tailing;
• 2 x Lewmar 16's;
• 2 x Lewnar 7 winch on mast;
• 1 x Lewmar 6 winch on mast.

NAVIGATIONAL EQUIPMENT

• Chart table: Map light, Garmin GPS 128, B & G VHF DSC - 2020;
• Cockpit: Clipper Wind - 2020, Clipper Depth - 2020, Clipper Log - 2020, Clipper GPS repeater, steering compass, bracket for navigational screen.

DECK EQUIPMENT

• Stem head fitting with roller chain, S/S pulpit & pushpit with liferaft cradle;
• Substantial anodised aluminium toe rail;
• Fore aft and midships mooring cleats with fairleads;
• Guard rails;
• Manual anchor windlass;
• Anchor (+ 1 spare), chain; 
• Sugar scoop stern;
• Transon boarding rung and inset bathing platform with boarding ladder;
• Sprayhood (New Sep '22, Moatt Sails);
• FULL cockpit canopy (New Nov '22, Moatt Sails);
• 11 fenders (good condition);
• 1 large buoy;
• Ventilators to each cabin, forehatch, saloon hatch and aft cabin hatch (all tight);
• Inflatable tender and Mariner 2.5hp outboard (serviced Jan '23).

SAFETY EQUIPMENT

• 6 person Seago Liferaft 2020;
• Horse Lifebuoy 2020;
• Jackstay lines;
• 2 harnesses;
• MOB Sling 2020;
• 4 cabin fire extinguishers;
• Galley fire blanket;
• 1 auto, 1 manual bilge pump.

Asking Price & Contacting the Owner...

I'm asking £41,000 (UK tax paid) for 'Bonobo' , our Moody 346.

If you're interested in becoming her new owner and would like more information you can contact me, Richard Johnson, here...

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Sailing yacht bimini enclosure, what is a bimini enclosure, a product which combines the benefits of the uv protection and shade of the cockpit bimini and the protection and extra space of the cockpit enclosure., “would you like protection from the rain, or the sun”, is one of the most frequent questions we have asked yacht owners over the past 20 years. the dilemma is; whether a waterproof cockpit enclosure is necessary and preferred rather than a bimini sunshade; or vice versa. as most yacht owners know; all kinds of weather conditions are experienced when out enjoying your sailing, sometimes all in the same day in the uk therefore, this combination product is an excellent investment., how does it work, the c&j bimini enclosure will utilise the same frame set up of our classic cockpit bimini. it is designed to attach, using heavy duty zips, to your existing or new c&j sprayhood using an extra ‘canvas infill panel’. then zipping the sides and aft panels into position, and attaching the panels to the cockpit moulding, your bimini is now transformed into a fully functional enclosure that provides protection to the cockpit from bad weather conditions. the extra space now gained by adding the zipped panels can now be maximized in many other ways., when sailing the panels should be removed for safety reasons, the ‘roof’ section remains secured to the framework by means of heavy-duty nylon zips incorporated into a canvas pocket. sturdy, quick release stainless steel support bars secure the bimini aft and strong adjustable webbing straps tension the bimini forward. if decided the bimini roof is not required for your passage, the webbing straps can be quickly released enabling the roof canvas and frame to fold aft against the support bars and/or the backstays. once stowed in this position, a separate acrylic canvas pouch is zipped on to protect the roof section and contain it neatly., the benefits of a bimini enclosure, all the benefits of a cockpit bimini sunshade for use while sailing., when it rains you can fully enclose the cockpit., ample vision windows in the port side, the starboard side and aft zipped panels., all panels can be rolled up and secured in place with webbing tie up straps, or fully removed for those longer passages., provides a water-resistant seal between the enclosure and the coaming., extra living and storage space for you and the crew., the same optional extras as a cockpit enclosure; window blinds, exterior window covers, extra windows..

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The C&J Marine Bimini Enclosure has been developed over 30 years to be a versatile product, while maintaining the quality of the components throughout. Our customers can have a variety of different needs, ranging from lake and coastal, fair weather day trips, to round the world blue water adventures. Our products can be designed and customised from a range of optional extras to best suit your needs and plans with your vessel. Our knowledgeable and friendly staff are always on hand to discuss what is available for your product, ensuring you are made aware of every possibility, therefore if you would like to hear more information on any of our customising options and how they could benefit you, please get in touch.

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The standard layout of a C&J Marine Enclosure comes with three – five windows depending on the size of the cockpit and frame positioning. The port, starboard and aft panels all benefit from a large window which allows a considerable amount of light into the cockpit area.

If more light and/or vision is required in the cockpit, extra windows in the side, aft panels and infill panels connecting to your Sprayhood are available as a optional extra, which can be decided during the design & patterning stage. Window blinds can also be added to the interior of the windows providing more privacy.

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These versatile additions offer enhanced privacy, protection, and control over lighting and temperature. The interior blinds provide adjustable shade and privacy within the enclosure, allowing you to create a comfortable and personalised space. On the exterior, the window covers offer an extra layer of defence against sun, wind, and rain, ensuring maximum protection for your enclosure and its contents. With their durable construction and easy installation, these optional extras are the perfect complement to your Bimini Enclosure, adding functionality and style to your boating experience.

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These panels offer a perfect balance of ventilation and protection, allowing fresh air to flow while keeping bugs and debris out. The durable mesh material ensures longevity and is resistant to harsh weather conditions. Enjoy the benefits of improved airflow and visibility without compromising on privacy or comfort. The breathable mesh panels provide an additional layer of versatility to your Bimini Enclosure, making it an ideal choice for sweltering summer days or areas with high insect activity. Embrace the outdoors with confidence and maximise your boating experience with this valuable optional upgrade.

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Traditional Seamanship: Why Old-fashioned Sailing is Best

Old-fashioned sailing provides deep connection with the ocean and with one another, Ellen Leonard tells us.

Old-fashioned sailing in a sparkman & stephens yawl.

My first long ocean voyage, a circumnavigation of the globe, had more in common with voyaging in the post-war years than it did with contemporary ocean sailing. My husband Seth and I made that voyage in the first years of the 21st century; therefore, if we had been much wealthier, we could have sailed in a style not greatly different from that which is common today. As it was, our experience would have felt familiar to such iconic voyagers as the Smeetons or the Pyes.

Our sloop was built in 1968, to a 1954 design. Specifically, she was an imitation of the famous Sparkman & Stephens yawl Finisterre (winner of three consecutive Bermuda Races), although she was a sloop rather than a yawl. Despite being 38 feet overall, and 27 feet on the waterline, she displaced 24,000 pounds. She had a relatively shallow-draught keel, with a centerboard that could be lowered for upwind performance. She was low to the water, had sweeping overhangs and a narrow stern, and a small cabin with a traditional layout. Her chart table was expansive and her bunks were narrow. Although her hull was constructed of solid fiberglass, she had a solid mahogany cabin, coamings, and toerail; her ports, stanchions, and most of her other fittings were bronze. Even her propeller shaft was bronze. Her engine was a Perkins 4.107 that leaked an embarrassing quantity of oil. The boat herself leaked, through the chainplates, coamings, winch bases, toerail, and many other places. We slowly but surely resolved all these leaks over the course of our circumnavigation, but they were there for a time, just as they had been for many sailors over the centuries.

Bit by bit, small upgrade by small upgrade, Seth and I did bring ourselves into the current century, or at least into the late 20th century. By the time we dropped the hook back in Maine, after four years of sailing around the world, we had solar panels, electric light, a Pactor modem for email over the single sideband radio, and even a minuscule refrigerator. But at the beginning, our only concession to modernity – or rather, the only piece of it we could afford – was a small black-and-white GPS . This showed us merely our latitude and longitude; the rest of our navigation we did on those large paper charts that today are pretty much relegated to wall decoration.

Our electrical capacity was limited to the very small battery bank we had, only 270 amp hours. We used this to power the little GPS, our VHF radio, and our navigation lights while underway. Those three little bulbs, however, drew enough amperes that we were concerned about the electrical draw on a long passage, especially on our Pacific crossing, a month at sea from Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands to the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. So we went to the tremendous effort and expense of installing a small wind generator while we were in Panama. With this extra power, we were later able to install an electronic depth sounder (what luxury!) and then much later on, the tiny fridge, just big enough to keep any fish we caught from going bad before we could eat it.

A couple of years later, in Australia, we replaced the wind generator with solar panels, realizing that we disliked the necessity of anchoring in windy places, and also the fact that the blades had maimed at least one poor seabird. The increased reliability of our electricity, especially in sunny places like Queensland, led us to install electric cabin lights. Up until that point, however, we had lived as sailors for centuries had done, with an oil lamp to light the cabin after dark.

We had two fresh water tanks under the settee berths; for the first year we pumped our water at the galley sink with a hand pump; when we reached New Zealand, we upgraded to a foot pump. In ports where we could easily obtain fresh water, we would fill a “solar camping shower” bag with it, letting the black bag sit in the sun to heat the water and then washing ourselves with it up on deck. This was rather pleasant in deserted tropical anchorages, but was less enjoyable in colder locations, or in crowded harbors where we felt a bit exposed, even wearing our bathing suits. On passages we used our fresh water only for drinking and cooking; a shower at sea was a bucket of saltwater.

We rowed to and from the shore, aboard our eight-foot faux lapstrake solid fiberglass dinghy. We cooled our boat in warm places simply by opening the hatches; we warmed ourselves in cold places simply by layering on clothing or blankets. We always sailed. We used our oil-leaking engine only to maneuver into tight marinas or harbors; often we sailed right on and off our anchor, and we never motored at sea. We used less than 40 gallons of diesel fuel per year. If there was no wind – as there wasn’t for six days off Australia’s Northern Territory – we just drifted.

For the first year and a half of old-fashioned sailing, we obtained weather forecasts simply by looking at the sky and the barometer. Then, upon leaving New Zealand, we joined a single sideband radio net, on which a man back in New Zealand reported weather forecasts. Another year and a half after that, upon leaving for South Africa from the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, we finally upgraded to receiving GRIB files over SailMail, via a Pactor modem hooked up to our SSB. With the advent of our Pactor modem, we also finally had primitive, text-only email communication with the outside world. Before that, voice communication with other radio stations – other boats with SSB or VHF – had been our sole contact with the world beyond our little sloop. Indeed, on our Pacific crossing, we only had the VHF on which to communicate, meaning we could speak only to those vessels that came within 25 miles of our position. Over the course of that month-long passage, a month that just the two of us spent out of sight of land, we spoke with only one ship.

There is a certain element of difficulty in living in this way. There are times when you are very tired, or the wind is blowing strong, and you wish you had an outboard motor for the dinghy. Sometimes the dishes you washed in the light of the oil lamp turn out not to be all that clean in the light of day. Your hair itches after weeks of seawater bucket “showers.” Drifting out of sight of land, in a dead calm, in tropical heat, for a full week, taxes your mental stamina in way not familiar to most modern Westerners. Reading the sky and the barometer to estimate your own weather forecasts requires an attentiveness and observation power beyond what most of us are used to. Living without refrigeration restricts your diet in unpleasant ways. Sailing without modern aids like radar, AIS, chartplotters, and electronic autopilots makes for quite a bit more work and more vigilance. This is especially true in thick fog, even more so when that fog is hiding a busy roadstead like Cape Town, South Africa. Hauling a 60-pound anchor up by hand, especially in deep anchorages, when you have many feet of chain to haul up as well, requires serious strength. And making ocean passages aboard a low-freeboard, heavy displacement boat, especially in high winds and steep waves, makes for a very wet ride.

But it also provides a unique satisfaction. Like a lengthy mountain trek or climb, it shows you that you are capable of discomfort and effort beyond what you may have expected. Just as the author and pioneering aviator Beryl Markham found when she left home as a very young woman, it’s liberating and satisfying to discover that, “I never had less and I never needed more.” Combined with the marvelous experiences of offshore voyaging – the seabirds wheeling in the pink sky as the sun rises after a dark night of rain squalls; the flying fish shimmering over the waves; the delicious taste of a tuna you caught yourself; the feathery tops of palm trees at the end of a long passage; spinning yarns with fellow sailors; Sunday brunch with a local family on a remote island; the quiet stillness of a protected cove – sailing like this, in a style many people today would find primitive, provided Seth and myself with a unique joy.

Old-fashioned sailing: Connecting with the Natural World

I think that the true reason for this was that the simplicity of it necessarily connected us more fully with what we were doing, with the natural world through which we were moving. Creature comforts, as lovely as they are, in some ways form a barrier between us and our world. Finding a balance between the two is important: after all, Seth and I did not cross the Pacific on a raft, Kon-Tiki style. We had bunks with bedsheets, a gas burner on which to cook hot meals, and enough tins and dried food to last us for months. But we lived much closer to the elements than we would have done aboard a more modern, kitted-out yacht. It’s hard to feel removed from the ocean, and from the act of sailing across its vast expanse, when green water is coursing down the decks and drenching you on your watches in a gale. When we reached an island or a bay or a harbor, we would carefully nose around it before dropping the hook; hauling up the anchor by hand had given us a great appreciation of the depth of the water in which we anchored. Drifting in calms instilled deep gratitude for the gift of wind. The dim light of the oil lamp meant that our daily routines were much more in keeping with the rising and setting of the sun, and we appreciated full moon nights much more than we ever had before. Seawater showers and a poor diet offshore made the simple pleasures of bathing in fresh water and eating fresh fruit in port into supreme joys.

I think that slowing down our lives, reducing them and simplifying them, added enormously to the joy and wonder of our ocean sailing and the beauties of each new landfall. Perhaps the biggest contribution to this was our lack of communication with the outside world. Satellite communications back then – and I am only speaking about less than 20 years ago – were prohibitively expensive. Internet connection on a sailboat was unheard of, not even quite believable, a bizarre extravagance that megayachts were rumored to have. SSB radio with slow modems and text email service was as high-tech as it really got, and Seth and I didn’t even have that for the first three years. We communicated with those at home sporadically: via letters posted from a port with a post office; via emails sent from internet cafes; and sometimes via phone, in conversations curtailed by the expense of a long-distance connection from pay-phone booth. And so we lived much as people had for generations, socializing with the people in our immediate vicinity, making new friends when we went to new places. In short, we lived in each moment in the place in which we found ourselves. At sea, that meant with only each other, and the sea and sky and the wild creatures, for company. The simplicity of that, the slowness of it, the immediacy and intimacy of it, resets your mind in way, enables a degree of focus and calm that’s missing in the fast pace of the digital world.

And so, while Seth and I have upgraded now to slightly larger, cold-molded wooden sloop, with pressure water, an anchor windlass, and even radar, our floating home remains relatively simple. Thus, sailing remains the time and place in which we reconnect with the natural world, with the ocean we are sailing upon, with the wildlife we observe, with the people we meet, and with each other.

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