Midwinter 2021 By Tim Plouff We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came. -John F. Kennedy January in Maine can be a long, cruel month. TheRead More

Midwinter 2021 By Bob Muggleston “I can’t wait to go sailing again.” Nim Marsh, Points East’s former editor, recently said this to me, and I couldn’t agree more. The events of the last nine months have been distracting in so many ways, mostly, of course, thanks to COVID-19. Beyond theRead More

Part 3: The J/30 Mojo finally found some wind, and Mark and Diana sailed efficiently from Portsmouth, N.H., to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, despite a nav-bungle and a minor piloting error.

Midwinter 2021 By Christopher Birch In my daydream, I’m at the helm of a perfectly restored J-class yacht from yesteryear. Familiar faces dot the crew. Ted Turner is on the topping lift, and Dennis Conner is down below making sandwiches. It’s the final leg, and thousands of square feet ofRead More

Friends, family, lovers. Relationships created and lost. This is what so much of our life on the water is all about. So just in time for Valentine’s Day, we bring you some of the relationships we have seen here at Points East.

The author and his wife had long dreamed of cruising south for the winter and returning in the spring. Finally they did it, with two dogs, aboard the Banjer 37 motorsailer Magus.

Midwinter 2021 By Joanne Milke In the summer of 2017 my husband and I had just finished a long, lazy summer weekend on the hook aboard Kindred Spirit, our 36-foot Saberline trawler, and were packed into the dinghy headed back to the dock. My anticipation of the busy week aheadRead More

Midwinter 2021 By David Roper There are good ships, and there are wood ships, The ships that sail the sea. But the best ships, are friendships, And may they always be. -Irish Proverb You could easily say that the pre-COVID-19 photo on the following page says it all. It’s aRead More

Concord, Mass. U.S. Navy veteran and respected psychiatrist Christopher Courtney Gates, M.D., of Concord, Mass., died on Saturday, Jan. 30. He was 87. Son of the late Frances Crozier and Percival Taylor Gates, he was born in Montclair, N.J., on June 7, 1933. The youngest of three boys, he passedRead More

Portland, Maine Richard “Dick” M. Levesque passed away on January 20 at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine. He was born May 25, 1944 to Lucien and Alice (Roy) Levesque in Spartanburg, S.C., where his father was preparing to deploy to the European theatre of WWII. The eldest of six children,Read More