Best Father’s Day Gifts for Sailors
Want to give Dad the perfect cruising-inspired gift this Father’s Day? Here are 25 ideas he’ll love.
Want to give Dad the perfect cruising-inspired gift this Father’s Day? Here are 25 ideas he’ll love.
We don’t talk about it much, but seasickness is a real menace. Michelle Segrest looks at ways to combat it. A Rough Guide to Seasickness Simply put, seasickness is pure misery. Until you truly experience it, you can’t really say that you know what it feels like.
An itinerary: From Winter Harbor, just east of Mount Desert Island, bound east-northeast, five days of sailing will reward your crew with a magnificent shoreline seldom explored by casual cruisers.
But always there comes a point when the sands of time have almost drained from the glass, when there’s little chance left to share what really matters.
If you can correctly identify this harbor, you’ll be on your way to winning a fine Points East designer cap. To qualify, identify the harbor AND tell us something about the harbor, such as how you recognized it and some reasons you like to hang out there.
Cruising the New England coast over the last five years with my wife Leslie, from Block Island to Southeast Harbor, in Maine, completely changed my feelings about yacht clubs.
I’ve never really understood how the commercial guys can find 600 traps out on the open ocean. We had enough trouble finding 10.
The May Mystery Harbor is Bass Harbor in Tremont, Maine! If there ever was a place to be on Mount Desert Island during even the crowded summer season, this is it. The yellow roof on the right marks Thurston’s Lobster...
Part 3: In the life of every vessel, a figurative day of rain must occasionally fall, and for the O’Day Mariner 19 Blue Skies it came in the form of a wild and destructive capsize, but even this couldn’t dampen her spirit.
June 2024 “The Worst Journey in the Midlands” by Sam Llewellyn. Macmillan Publishers. 1994. 192 pps. $8.36. Reviewed by Randy Randall I recently read “The Worst Journey in the Midlands” by Sam Llewellyn on the recommendation of Nim Marsh...
June 2024 By John Murray Editor’s note: this year’s Downeast Challenge, which takes place on July 26-27, is from Marblehead, Mass., to Portland, Maine. The following is a charming first-person account from one of the 2022 race’s participants, who ended up double-handing with his 12-year-old son.
June 2024 By Bob Muggleston Over the last few years, working for a marine-canvas business, I’ve been in a lot of boatyards and taken photos of more unregistered yard vehicles than I can count. The one I’ve included with this piece is my favorite.
Some basic tips about what you slap on the transom.
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