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The pint-sized author/sailor named Lin Pardey isn’t merely a dear and diminutive friend; she is a larger-than-life intellectual tour-de-force

Ganesh, our 1981 43-foot Wauquiez ketch, is a very commodious, very livable cruising vessel. Even better, her comfy aft cabin is a bit of a Tardis—bigger on the inside than the outside. Few sailing vessels under 55 feet LOA sport such a posh aft cabin. 

Your boat has the rig it needs. If it doesn’t—buy a new boat, not a new rig. Misconceptions exist about sailing rig configurations

ALL AT SEA – Advertisement – Since I grew up aboard, it was always a given that someday I’d circumnavigate—but there was ‘many a slip between the cup and lip’ as they say. My first boat rotted faster than I could wood-butcher new planks and frames into her. It took me a while to build a new 36-foot ketch from scratch with empty pockets. Thus, I was in my mid-twenties in the late ‘70s before heading down to the Lesser Antilles for a brief shakedown cruise before shoving off on my first circ.  Luckily, in the Bahamas I met a cowboy bullrider from Texas named