Author Archives: B.J.

Evenstar has been sold. Maybe some of you noticed it on the About page, but I’ve taken two+ months for me to get my head around it to write about it here. But we finally found a buyer and moved off the boat, and we’ve been back in the U.S. Read On..

When I first saw a Portland Pudgy at a boat show, I didn’t know what to make of it. I thought it was kind of ugly, and had a good laugh about it with the friends I was with. But I came from that initial unflattering impression all the way Read On..

It’s been a while since my last bombshell update, but surprisingly little has happened. I mean, we’ve returned to New Zealand, put the boat up for sale, moved into a marina, and been locked down for a month. But other than that, not much has happened. At least that’s what Read On..

Not long ago, it seems like yesterday, I was bemoaning the fact that our entire plan for the next couple of years had been completely shot down in flames. And I waxed poetic about the fluid nature of cruising and how you need to be flexible. And we sketched out Read On..

To date it has been a delightfully uneventful passage. We don’t like exciting passages. We prefer deathly dull, unintersting trips were the sailing is easy, nothing major breaks, and there’s, as our Aussie friends are keen to say, “No Drama.” A Few Things Acting Up It wouldn’t be an offshore Read On..

Okay everyone, stand back… Evenstar now has hourly position updates on our whereabouts during passages. For now anyway, because it’s a side effect of a bunch of other expensive stuff we’ve paid for for other purposes. With out new and increased satellite communication with an Iridium Go, we have better Read On..