When you read marine consulting, what do you think?  I wonder what specific area they are consulting and go see their information. As a consultant you can’t cover everything in the marine industry, you have to have your specialty. So what is Paul Cronin Studios specialty as a marine consultant?  Good question, and I will try and fill you in on what I do, and who my client base is in the marine industry. First off you need to have the experience of actually having done the work where you are consulting.  Not just schooling, although that helps. But if…

Writing this on 27 March, with spring starting in the Northern Hemisphere, it is a very exciting time of year.  All the new growth is popping in Rhode Island, with outside temperature at a sunny 59 degrees F today. I find this is a perfect time to test my coastal and offshore gear, lifejackets, PLB, all the gear hanging up in our sailing room.  Everything was inspected when it went into storage, washed, dried, and hung in a cool dry room.  Inflatable lifejackets need manual inflating, and let it sit out of the sun for two days to make sure…

Every time we learned something new we fail at some level.   You have to, that is learning, making mistakes along the way so you can grow.  All of this goes with my last three post, that the details are hard to master, but embracing failing at them is a big step in growing. There are so many examples I could use, my drumming, my cycling, consulting, yacht designs, my bad writing, photography, video, but for this one I will stick with the sailing theme and save the others for future post. When I was spending most of my sailing…

Enjoy the holiday video from our on the water highlights. Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year See you soon, Paul

It is a beautiful day out sailing and you are enjoying the moment. Then you see the late summer thunderheads headed your way. Wow, they are moving fast, and look nasty. So if you are alone, family sailing, or in a fully crew race, the first thing you do is shorten sail. When I coach shorthanded sailors I use the analogy of riding a bike up a steep hill, “Shift often, and Shift early”. The same is true for reefing when sailing. You will not loose being a little early, but it will be a mess if you are late.…

This week is all about getting a race finish bottom on your sailboat. Do we all need fair, smooth, fast bottoms on our race boats? Of course we do, but this can be very expensive and for good reason. There is a a lot of labor involved. With all the boat work I have done over 40 plus years this is the nastiest job going. I said this would be my last bottom job, for the third time. Well I have done another since and will be doing Pierre’s next spring but Pierre is being soda blasted first. So if…