For a stingy sailor, boat shows are like going undercover as a spy. You can walk the aisles of exhibits and tour fancy new yachts looking like any other potential buyer but in reality, you represent the antithesis of the new yacht shopper. You’re a mole from the other side, the kind of owner that keeps their aged sailboat, fixes it up, and maintains it in top condition. You’re just there out of curiosity and to get ideas for cool projects to do on your own boat back home. Yacht salespeople would hate us a little if they knew who we really are, top-secret spies.

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Are you going to the Seattle Boat Show 2015 on Friday, January 30th? If so, and you’d like to meet up with other stingy sailors for a casual, Dutch treat dinner, join us at the Cask and Trotter restaurant at 711 Westlake … Continue reading Dinner Invitation for Seattle Boat Show Attendees

Merry Christmas to all you stingy sailors out there! I hope you are enjoying a warm celebration of the reason for the season with family and friends. That’s what’s going on here at The $tingy Sailor home port, but this is … Continue reading Ten Most Popular DIY Projects of 2014

It’s official. The $tingy Sailor blog now has its own domain name, stingysailor.com. In part due to your nudges, I registered the domain name this week. You can now forget the wordpress.com domain part and simply type stingysailor.com in your browser’s address bar to get here. If you have the old address bookmarked in your browser, it will continue to work and will redirect you to the new address or you can update it with the new address. If you haven’t bookmarked this site yet, now is a good time to do it. Then you can get here with a click anytime you want. It won’t get any simpler than that. Continue reading “Important Address Change Announcement”

A hearty Ahoy! to all you stingy sailors out there who have followed this blog this year. I’m not sharing a project with you this week to pass along a few personal comments and ask for your opinion. Continue reading “A Special Message from the Skipper”

If you haven’t already voted for Summer Dance in the Sailrite 2014 Summer Project Photo Contest, please take a moment to vote for our photo now by clicking the preceding link. That should take you to a page with our … Continue reading Please Vote for Summer Dance!

It’s been just over a year since we purchased nameless C-22 #10330. You wouldn’t think it would be hard to come up with a name. That is, unless you want a name that isn’t already on somebody else’s boat and one that both you and the first mate like.

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