More Good Sites

Time to add some more websites we enjoy to our blogroll. Let me tell you a little bit about them.

Tugster: a waterblog

Besides the practical and safety-related uses of AIS, I think a big part of the fun is ship-spotting. And if you enjoy ship-spotting, you’ll like Tugster. He regularly posts interesting photos of ships and working boats in New York Harbor, along with comments in his succinct and enjoyable style. Reading him feels like hanging around a harbor with an old friend who knows something about everything that’s going on.

Craft A Craft

Bruce recently left us a nice comment and posted about Navagear on his boat-building blog Craft A Craft. My parents built a couple boats when I was a kid, and we’ve had some boat-building friends over the years, so I have a soft-spot for those who take on the challenge of building their own boats. It takes a lot of patience and persistence, as well as curiosity and smarts to pull it all together. You can follow along on Bruce’s blog while he begins his boat-building saga.

gCaptain

gCaptain is a website focused on news and interest for professional mariners, and we like their blog, which has all kinds of nuggests that are interesting to cruisers, and anyone curious about what’s going on in the world of shipping and commercial craft.

Boat Bits

Bob from Boat Bits is a sailor and film maker and has been writing about the gear he has had good and not-so-good experience with, as well as interesting opinions on boat design and building. We think it’s always good to hear unvarnished perspectives. And, apparently he’s working some interesting sounding boating-related DVDs…