I love nautical terminology. I love how a simple word, phrase or item can have such a fun twist when you bring it to the ocean; not to mention the fun words that were created on ships and are no longer used. Awhile back I stumbled across a book of nautical terms on the bookshelf [...]
Every year the Maine Windjammer Association (MWA) hosts a Great Schooner Race. The race is always held the week of July 4th and happened today! We know not everyone is on Facebook, where we’ve kept fans up-to-date as information comes in, so we thought we’d share today’s events in a post so you don’t miss [...]
Spring is one of the busiest times of year on the boat and in the barn. This year it’s wonderful to have familiar faces returning. Toni (Hoot), Scott (Scoot) and Alan (Mouse) arrived early this spring to get a jump start on outfitting. As usual spring is a flurry of activity and with the winter [...]
Please forgive us in advance be we are taking a little trip back in time and going a little techno here for this post. When Captains Jon & Annie took over stewardship of the Schooner J&E Riggin in winter of 1997/1998, as part of the package of boat and business, they inherited a one page [...]
One of the rainy day projects Captain Jon has been working on is a small repair to the fore gaff. The fore gaff is the upper spar attached to the forward mast, the lower spar is the boom (the one you duck from so you don’t get hit in the head!) Captain Jon used Douglas [...]
This morning upon arriving at the office I saw Cap walking across the yard with the look of “I have something to show you”. I always get excited when I see this look because it means I’m going to learn something or see something that if I didn’t work here I would never have the [...]
Here it is April 1st and we find ourself with another snow day. Don’t get us wrong we love the snow, we love it more in the winter where it belongs rather than after spring has begun, but still we love it. Today we’re getting dumped on. At the time of this posting we have around 4-5 [...]
Winter is the time for projects. Projects in the barn, on the boat and in the office. In recent weeks Captain Jon has started on a few projects. In the barn Cap has started sanding and staining the forward skylight and adding window bars. On the boat he has started the process of adding [...]
For the last couple of years we’ve made available an online Riggin community for you to connect with fellow passengers, share photos, upload videos, and ask questions. We are sad to say that with a change in the platform we’ve been using we will no longer be able to keep this community up and running. [...]
