The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
Flotsam & Jetsam- 07.11.25
This week’s news and events from around Australia New Zealand and the world.
Flotsam & Jetsam 10.10.25
This week’s news and questions from around Australia and the world.
Avoidance Issues
We describe sensible, rational people as ‘grounded’. The moorings are dropped, the anchor breaks ground, the pen is left behind: What is it? It’s avoidance. Avoidance of being ‘grounded’. A drift up a creek, a fang around the cans, an ocean crossing, an around the world race, all just ways of evading the sticky mud that clings to earthbound life
Flotsam & Jetsam 19.9.25
A round up of Traditional Maritime News that we have stumbled across during the last week.
Flotsam & Jetsam 5.9.25
It’s about time we settled on a name for this page. I’ve found over the last few months that we come across many interesting snippets and links that might be of interest to the readers, but probably aren’t worth a full, stand alone article. So we started a news page, rounding up wooden boat and related stories from the past few days.
Visual Inspiration
The text was short and to the point. “My late father fresh out of the Navy after WWII, courting my mother by taking her sailing on a 90ft wooden schooner on the coast of Maine.”
August News Wrap
Half a dozen items that caught our attention in August from the world of wooden boats or the values that surround it!
Forms of Carbon
So while diamonds glitter on distant exoplanets and sparkle in alien skies, wood tells a deeper story. It is the rarest treasure because it is born from life. A simple stick on Earth is more precious than an entire planet of diamonds when viewed through the lens of the universe.
This week on the WWW
A values driven selection of this week’s stories from around the world and on the web.
'Slick' Survival Move Jesus May Have Tried
“Storm oil” could be deployed upwind in a container attached, for example, to a sea anchor, from which it slowly released its contents. Like nutmeg on butternut squash, storm oil was effective even when applied in tiny amounts.
