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A while back I blogged about the DSe Hybrid yacht, a cruising motor-boat that used electric motors coupled with a pair of small diesel generators and a bank of batteries and solar panel array. The boat could steam along under diesel or electric power alone and provide power indefinitely for living “on the hookâ€.
If you [...]
 In my opinion, nothing embodies the spirit of auto racing in its purest form than rallying. This form of motor sport harkens back to the days before closed circuits when road racing literally meant what its name implies: two or more cars racing on public roads from point A to point B. It is no [...]
I am big fan of Ernest Hemingway. To me the man himself was like a character in one of his novels (even though this is romantizing it quite a bit as this brilliant writer lived a tumultuous life and eventually committed suicide in 1962). Besides writing, Hemingway was a consummate traveler and indulged in all [...]
Porsche has announced that a group of 26 slightly modified Cayenne S SUVs will run the 2007 edition of the Trans-Siberia Rally from Moscow to Ulaan Batar, 3,850 miles away. The idea came after a privately entered Cayenne succesfully completed the grueling rally. Porsche’s own Trans-Siberian Rally web special is running a feature on the driver [...]
This is my first attempt at posting video on the web so, if anybody is reading this blog, please let me know of any technical issues. I shot this last April in Puerto Rico:
Even though all of our beaches could be considered idyllic by mainland standards, most locals favor the beaches that lie on [...]
The cover story of the current issue of Passage Maker Magazine is an article on trailerable trawlers. In a previous post I wrote about voyaging motorboats and how most production motorboats are built for speed and luxury instead of seworthiness or cuising comfort. Although saltwater fishing boats have much better seakeeping abilities than your average runabout or cruiser, accomodations are usually minimal and fuel [...]
When I was trying to think of a name for this Blog, concepts like “adventures with style” or “civilized adventures” kept coming to mind. That’s because, while we don’t believe in always taking the easy route, we also don’t believe in roughing it for no reason at all. As Thomas Ritter, president of Unicat–a company that builds [...]
Overland travel is probably the most accessible form of adventure travel for the average amateur adventurer. Having been born in an island, I always assumed that I would travel the world aboard a cruising sailboat. When I moved to America, I began to recognize the possibilities that overland travel could offer without the complications and [...]
Thanks to Johnny Depp pirates are now popular; however, even before the successful movie, Pirates of The Caribbean was my favorite ride at Walt Disney World. Despite the less than realistic animatronics (the ride has been recently revamped) and the corniness of the cheery depictions of pillage and plunder, I found the sense of adventure [...]
This past January we spent a few days in New York city. While we stayed in a hotel a few steps from Times and did’t leave Manhattan the whole time we were in the city, a trip to “The Big Apple” is always an adventure. The yearly pilgrimage to the city that never sleeps for a [...]
