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My first complete solo audiobook is now online and free for anyone to download at Librivox. The Track of the Typhoon was a book I read in serialized form several years ago, in the delightful zine Messing About in Boats. It’s a travelogue from a slightly insane sailing voyage in 1920, written by the aptly…
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The back door of our garage was in rough shape when we bought the house ten years ago, and we’ve been procrastinating its repair for just as long. Ordinarily I’d just go to the lumber yard, pick up a pre-hung door in the appropriate style, and install it by lunchtime. However, this particular door is…
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Editor’s note: This is the second of two posts about an obscure sailboat design that was once popular on the upper Severn River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The posts got lost in a site update in 2024, so I’m now reposting and backdating them for the sake of anyone else who…
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Editor’s note: this post originally appeared in 2012 on my alandove.com blog, but it got lost in an update of both of my sites in 2024. I’m putting it and a companion post back online now, backdated to their original publication dates, after hearing from someone who was looking for them. Wayne sent this note…