the colonel

Yes, that’s Colonel Klink from the American sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. What does it have to do with sailing? Well…

We have featured the General Lee on these pages many times – an amazingly quick boat that happened to pick a rather dubious name and color scheme based on a hot rod called General Lee from one of the dumbest TV shows to ever exist, The Dukes of Hazzard. All of it done in good fun, but the original General Lee evokes the specter of slavery, the Confederacy, and the deep, racist South. Some feathers have been ruffled over this version of The General…

Anarchist phreddo makes a funny/offensive/ridiculous point usong h Hogan’s Heroes and some creative artworkin this post. You can decide if your feathers are ruffled. Ours weren’t.