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Edward Gossett — FoggySailing
Welcome aboard. I’m Edward, a retired Navy Missile Tech, boat builder, amateur sailor, and full-time tinkerer. I live in Bridgeport, WA, and run FoggySailing as a place to share small boat adventures, tech projects, and affordable off-grid housing ideas.
It’s where I catalog everything from Earthship builds to sailboat regrets. The wind is fierce. The summers are hot. Welcoming neighbors offer use of a backhoe to hide bodies. Other new neighbors from big cities expect dirt roads to have no dust and someone else to plow them.
Sailing Logs & Saltwater Regret
2012 Everglades Challenge — I built and launched a Core Sound 17 Mk3 cat ketch. Great design. Very safe. I don’t regret that part. I teamed up with Joe, who offered to handle the food. One compartment got waterlogged. The dry food was ruined. I opened the cooler. He had packed nothing but beer and summer sausage. I don’t drink. Cue mild hypothermia, saltwater rash, and a 50-mile push into a headwind.
2015 Race to Alaska — Teamed up with a buddy from Hawaii. Cold, wet, and full of grit. We didn’t win. We didn’t finish. But we made it to Victoria BC. Somewhere between frostbite and fish guts, we laughed harder than any sane adult should.
2016 R2AK with my Dad — Made it to Victoria again. Sailed back in 40-knot headwinds against tide ripping east. Duct tape was involved. Grit was tested. I listed the boat for sale that same night, swearing I wanted something bigger, warmer, and less flammable. Still respect Graham Byrnes — Core Sound cat ketches are brilliant. Just not big enough for that level of Type II fun.
Port Townsend 2014 — Dubious honor of being at the beer tent during the Wooden Boat Festival when R2AK was invented. I don’t drink. I was still there. Somehow that counts.
Maritime Work
2013–2022: Volunteered at the Gig Harbor Boatshop restoring antique wooden boats and building new ones. Learned traditional methods under Tom Regan, master boatwright and owner of Grapeview Boatworks. Real wood. Real tools. Real patience.
2016: Drove the harbor tour boat at Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend. Gave lectures about whales and weather patterns with the enthusiasm of someone who forgot to rehearse.
Earthships & Shelter That Works
I'm committed to low-cost, low-energy housing that takes care of people — not utility companies. Earthships, passive solar, DC power, off-grid tools, and real-world fixes for cold climates all show up here. No fantasy builds. Just what's been tried, tested, and occasionally rebuilt after a windstorm.
Current Work
I work at the VLBA Brewster Telescope (NRAO), doing electronics, cryogenics, RF systems, and millimeter-precise maintenance on a radio telescope array that maps deep space using hydrogen masers. Our signals are time-stamped by atomic clock. No margin for error. No room for duct tape (yet).
Connect
LinkedIn Resume • Contact Me • Follow @FoggySailing
Built with Grav CMS. Fueled by composted coffee grounds and sailcloth. Baked under the Eastern Washington sun, blasted by wind, and too stubborn to move back to the Westside.
Cold water. Grey skies. Rain. And $$$ boat taxes. Now that’s a cold cup’a caffeine-free suck.