A couple of weeks ago we took the whole week as a family to explore some of Lake Champlain’s best kept secrets, Burton Island, Knight Island and Woods Island. These are three islands in the “inland sea” of Lake Champlain that are also Vermont State Parks. Each is quite different in its size and character, and facilities. All of them are only accessible by boat. Here is the run down.
How to Make a Hawaiian Slingshot Speargun
This is a video about a Hawaiian spear gun for under $15.
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Tartan Sweeps in Regatta for Lake Champlain
Well… ok, maybe not quite…
Last weekend was the Regatta for Lake Champlain, a fundraising pursuit race held in Burlington, Vermont. Having read so much that the 70’s Tartan 41 was a hot race boat of the time, I was desperately interested to see how well it would fare against all the hot race boats of today.
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That Sinking Feeling
Just for laughs, I thought I would spend a while figuring out that ACTUAL real life capacity of the pumps on Alchemy (as opposed to the ratings on the manufacturers box). The result were quite surprising.
Spot vs DeLorme InReach vs ACR ResQLink
Now that we have purchased our Tartan 41, we have the issue of getting it home. Currently in Annapolis, we have to bring it back to Lake Champlain. I’ll be posting about that trip very soon, but this post is about emergency beacons, PLB’s and SPOT devices.
I want to get one for the trip, but which one?
Sailing With Kids 