Our Daily Life living aboard Naga
Our home
Naga at the start of the 1984 OSTAR Race
(Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race)
Plymouth, England to Newport, RI, USA
1st in Class 3
Naga is a 38 foot racer/cruiser trimaran designed by the great path-breaking American architect Dick Newick.
Built by Bill Cooper and launched in 1980 in Woods Hole, MA, Naga is built in a system of cold molded wood and epoxy (aka WEST System), consisting largely of western red cedar, ash, and mahogany.
Jack raced her a lot in the early and mid-80's, winning just about any Caribbean race that would allow multihulls, and then breaking the Newport to Bermuda multihull record by 22 hours in 1981. He took surprising class wins in two singlehanded transatlantic races: the 1982 Route du Rhum (sailing as Kriter X) from France to the Caribbean, and the 1984 OSTAR (as Destination St. Croix) from Plymouth England to Newport in the USA.
Naga has been Jack's full-time home most of the time since her launch. It's a wonderful home and she can be "at home" almost anywhere - if there's water!
Accommodation is
modest
but perfectly adequate.
But then. . .
click here for "The Truth about Life at Sea"
a short story about life aboard.
Main Cabin at right
with double berths
to each side, galley at right and below,
passage to "the head" and forward cabin
Naga's
accommodation plan,
cross-hatched areas are separate
from living space and are
defined by watertight bulkheads.
It's amazing what Chrissi can cook
up with this!
Jack has struggled with it for years, but with
rather less amazing results!
Main boudoir in forward cabin
doubles nicely as a ventilator - in port -
and a high power bidet -sometimes - at sea!
working
I never would have dreamed of making a living on the Internet even a few short years ago! But now it's a reality - and a wonderfully portable way to work.
I download and upload email and
Web page files
at the cybercafes that are now in almost every port.
Then we do the reading, replying and creating back on the boat with
the trusty laptop computer.
My main online business is discounted
cigarettes
that are network marketed, tax-free,
from an Indian Reservation.
These links will show you what I'm up to:
Discount Cigarettes
All that stuff is for money!
But the boat always demands work
too.
Here's a bit of it about half way up
Naga's 42 foot mast.
We keep busy . . .
Naga's aft cabin was a junk
depository
for years. Now it is Chrissi's fully operational
sail loft and canvas shop.
Everywhere we sail we find other
cruisers,
and there's always somebody who needs
new cushions, awnings, covers, or just
a sail repaired.
Sometimes those "simple" repairs aren't so simple.
Imagine stuffing an 800 square foot mainsail
through this small space to patch a tiny tear
in the middle of the monster.
Jack isn't the only one who does
the dangerous jobs
onboard Naga.
That's Chrissi up the mast.
Play!
sweet tropical fruit
hot and fresh baguette
YUMMY!!!
(both of them)
AAAAAHH!!!!! Life is sweet . . .