August 25, 2019
Cambridge Bay
Nunavut
Sunday morning. I am kick-the-dog frustrated. Wind is still hard and cold from the SW, day after day, relentlessly the wrong way, pinning us down in Cambridge Bay.
Co. Down Supplies Backdrop as RCYC Laser Sailors claim the Silverware! Ballyholme YC located in Bangor Co Down, hosted the 2019 Irish Laser National Championship which attracted over 100 sailors right across the Standard...
Fujin is a Paul Bieker-designed custom 53ft catamaran, which capsized in the 2018 RORC Caribbean 600 race but was rebuilt for the 2019 race
The Wicklow Vase is our annual event, where craft from both the upper and lower estuary come together to compete for the Wicklow Vase Trophy. This is a great opportunity for upper estuary boats to race out at sea and to take on the larger cruiser fleet.
Please note that the signup forms for the great Heir Island Transition Year (TY) trips will be going live automatically at 1100 on the Tuesday 27th August on this page using the links below. The links below are to be used from 1100am on Tuesday.
When it comes to putting out anchor chain, most of us follow a basic ratio rule of thumb, but we should be taking wind and tide into account, argues Christopher Smith
As experienced boaters know, there is much more to an outing than packing a picnic basket, picking out a destination, and heading out into the wide blue yonder. A good captain should have a lot on his or her mind...
The sign hanging over the front counter of the Islander Grocery at Lummi Island in Puget Sound reads “Keep Lummi Weird.” Nearly three thousand miles from my familiar islands back home in Maine and New Hampshire...
“Maiden” directed by Alex Holmes. Perf. Tracy Edwards, Jeni Mundy, and Mikaela Von Koskull. New Black Films 2019. In theaters now. Movie review by Molly Mulhern For Points East You may have heard that...
And it was a sweet life indeed aboard the 41-foot Concordia yawl Dolce, on a delivery from Boston to the Newport Boat Brokerage Show to be sold. No one bought her, but that isn’t my story.
The title of this piece is obviously a riff on the signature line from Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer,” a song that doesn’t get too much airplay anymore, but that all these years later (it was originally released in 1984) still affects me when I hear it.
In 1879, electricity innovator Thomas Edison baked cotton strands and bamboo splinters at high temperatures in order to carbonize them into a filament that could resist extreme temperatures. Can you...
