Category Archives: Old boats

Plug Nickel and my little book machine

By Joel Thurtell Plug Nickel is back. In fact, the boat named “Plug Nickel” never went away. But since June 2005, my columns about my adventures with the wooden Lightning sailboat hull that eventually came to be christened “Plug Nickel” … Continue reading

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My first boat

I get a little tired of hearing people brag about their classy yachts. Know what I mean? Here’s somebody a little better endowed in the money department able to afford a vessel that, for all the chest-thumping, ought to have … Continue reading

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