Yearly Archives: 2009

Mad Mariner podcast

Download 34306 Last weekDianne Byrne from Madmariner.com interviewed me about our communications efforts using blogs, Twitter and social networking sites. In case you didn’t catch it I have copied it here for all to hear.

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Fresh air and sunshine on the Sabre 40 Fly Bridge

We are working on the new tool for the fly bridge version of the Sabre 40. Now before I start, I admit that I am a dyed in the wool hard top express boater. I love the fact that rain … Continue reading

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Sabre 38II in Tunisia

It seems lately that we are hearing about Sabre’s on Blue Water cruises all over the world. As was mentioned in a recent blog a Sabre 386 just made the journey to Ireland. Also recently a 426 made a transatlantic … Continue reading

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A Boat Show with Soul

This coming weekend presents an opportunity to attend one of Maine's two great boat shows. The first show takes place in the gloom of late winter in Portland but this one is held under the sunny summer skies of Rockland, Maine in … Continue reading

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Sabre 386 Ekaterina Maine to Ireland

http://www..com/member/ekaterina/ Until June of this year, each time I left my dock at Brewers South Freeport (Maine) I set my eyes on the magnificent Sabre 386 Ekaterina belonging to Michael Bull. She is with no doubt one of the prettiest … Continue reading

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Jim Taylor goes sailing ?

I always laugh when people say, "your job has to be the best thing on earth, you get to go sailing all the time." Truth be told none of us sail as much as we should so when I read … Continue reading

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To Furl or Not to Furl ?

That may be the question. But here's my problem. You see, I was reading a magazine review the other day of the new Catalina 445. Once the reviewer had given the overall design, concept and application his blessing he went on to … Continue reading

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Sabre 40 Sedan Performance figures

RPM KNOTS GPH NM/G RANGE Helm         (nm) dBA Idle 600 5.0 1.5 3.3 1200 65 800 6.0 2.5 2.4 864 65 1000 7.6 3.6 2.1 760 62 1200 8.7 4.8 1.8 653 72 1400 9.5 7.5 … Continue reading

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Too much fun on the Sabre 40 sedan

Billy Black shoots most of our still images and these days he also brings along a video camera mounted on a gyro so as to stabilize the movement of the camera. Cool stuff. On a recent foray into Casco Bay, … Continue reading

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Gremlins at work

Not sure how this happened but one of our readers posted a comment and it came back through an entirely different email track. So, I am going to answer Peter C. here instead of on his comment. The pocket doors … Continue reading

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