Category: Stories and musings

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  January 10, 2026

  Boatbuilding, gateway drugs, and the pusher

  Ever since I was a kid, I romanticized the idea of designing and building a boat. As a young man of 11-12, I spent my evenings poring through sailing magazines and obsessing over things like hull shapes, keel designs, and accommodation plans. I would fill tablets of graph paper with my own designs for cruising…