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Offseason Projects
It was a busy offseason for One Life, with many projects to be completed to address long-standing issues ...
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Back in the Saddle, hopefully
I’ve felt bad not updating this site in months. For the first several months, it was because there ...
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Winter Sailing Fun with the Code Zero
Bad weather, no wind, and busy schedules conspired to keep One Life on the dock for most of ...
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Round the County: Noah’s Ark Edition
An absolutely epic weekend. Epic scenery. Epic rain. Epically bad start. Epically great first 30 minutes. Epic rain. ...
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Eight Bells: My dear friend, Bret Espey
If you’ve sailed with One Life or asked, you’ve probably heard my story about how her name is ...
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Can we start racing yet?
It seems like forever ago we last raced One Life, and I suppose it has been. The 2020 ...
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2021 Racing – Pandemic Style
[Editor’s note: My apologies to all for not doing a better job of updating this blog since September. ...
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BROVID-2020
Way back in 1985, I ended up on a recreational volleyball team at Western Washington University in fall ...
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First Singlehanded Race with Flying Sails
I raced Dragonfly (my prior boat, a 1969 Columbia 26 Mk II) singlehanded last season, but always in ...
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Cruisin’ for the Weekend
One of the big appeals of the J/99 is its competence for both racing and cruising. She’s no ...
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