4 hands, 2 weeks, 1 set of blueprints equals…..Robbie! Robbie is a Chameleon nesting dinghy designed by Danny Greene of Offshore Designs. If you’re interested in plans, he can be reached at dtgreene@ibl.bm. LOA: 10’4″ stern: 5’4″ bow: 5′ beam:…

Never buy a dinghy just because it’s named after your dead iguana. Someone should have told us this before we forked over the $100 for Spike. But the price was right, and when we heard the name it was a…

It began with a broken mast – thanks hurricane Charlie. It became new rigging, new chainplates, new thru-hulls, new seacocks, new head, new hoses, new faucets, new gas tank, new diverter valve, new upholstery, new canvas, new cockpit cushions and,…

We are a sailboat. We are excellent sailors. One of the reasons we are excellent sailors is because the diesel on Forbidden Planet is an 8 hp Yanmar. While it is an incredibly reliable little engine it is woefully underpowered….

After 2 days and you don’t want to know how much rum, we begin to calm down. On closer inspection, it looks like most of the damage is cosmetic. The scratches on the hull can be buffed out. The mold…

So there we were, heading to the boat thinking blue water, pretty coloured fish, gentle winds and fair skies. As the highway miles fly by and we get closer and closer to the boat we’re squirming, can’t wait to go…

The story so far, Sailorgirl and the Pirate Guy are just not good with dinghies. Inflatables deflate. Inflatables get stolen. Hard dinghies sink. You get the picture, we’re not good with dinghies. So by the end of our fifth cruising…

So why do we need another dinghy? Well that’s a story in it’s own. We’re not good with dinghies, I don’t know what it is, they’re our achilles heel. When we came up with the plan to buy a boat…