Tippets: Steinbeck Boat to Sail Again, Two vs. Single-Hand Rods

November 23, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • Seventy-five years after Steinbeck and a friend chartered the “Flyer” to sail from California to Mexico—a journey that became the fodder for Steinbeck’s book “The Log From the Sea of Cortez”—the boat is going to sea again. John Gregg, a geologist and businessman from California, recently bought the Flyer for $1 million and has plans to retrofit the boat for scientific use. Via The New York Times.
  • There are some obvious and big differences between two-handed and single-hand edrods. But “What takes a while to realize is that they have more in common than they are different,” writes Louis Cahill. He helps with the information overload beginners often feel in a recent article on Gink & Gasoline.