Comments on: Light reading

By: Armchair Sailor

Armchair Sailor — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:28:12 +0000

Actually it seems he’s back from his Arctic adventure – full account with photos is online now..

http://thesimplesailor.com/voyages.html

By: auntie ca

auntie ca — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:21:45 +0000

engineless? Artic? I’m fiarly convinced that you lot are all boat-potty!

…… and where does Mr Taylor fit his drum kit on his dinky corribee…

By: Will

Will — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:54:09 +0000

I’ve heard of the oar club before.
Great concept – truly terrible website. I mean AWFUL.
Every page is an image file and on my high resolution monitor it’s pretty much unreadable!

I managed to get an email address off the page and sent them a (very nice and friendly) message about how terrible it was basically told to “buy the book”.

So while I love the engineless idea (more due to the lower cost at the moment than due to the ethos) and will more than likely meet the criteria for the club – I don’t think I’ll ever bother joining.

Ah well.

Good luck with your mission though. I expect you could be an engineless sailor now. Sail as if the engine was not an option, using the outboard only to save the boat from wrecking… even if that means missing a tide or making for a different harbour it would be possible to go engineless in general practice and only use the motor in the way you’d use a life raft. There if you need it but never intended to be used.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:15:03 +0000

Just ordered it so you are up to 20p ! best of luck with the round britian – hope to do it myself one day.

By: Yacht Ninky

Yacht Ninky — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:01:17 +0000

my ambition is to become an engineless sailor – it may be a while before i become a member of the oar club by making a 100 mile four port passage but i want to get there http://www.oarclub.org/page5.html

advantage of owning a small boat with no inboard engine is that it’s going to be easier to get rid of the power when i feel confident enough. bought some sweeps but still need to fit the locks to use them.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:06:43 +0000

Not just a Corribee…
A corribee with NO ENGINE at that.

He takes the “simple” approach a long way, preferring to use good seamanship to stay off lee shores, sweeps when it’s calm and sail the rest of the time.

Yet another reason to read his stuff.

I’ve not read his book (thanks for the reminder, Nathan) but his site is a belter and I’d recommend it to anyone.

By: Iain

Iain — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:01:27 +0000

I’ve been enjoying following your adventure. I brought the book. I hope that 10p gets you a little bit further !