Over the years, I’ve sold lots of stuff on the internet. Everything from Swedish cars to antique rototillers and, for the most part, the transactions have been fairly straightforward. Goodbye baby bike trailer – don’t let the door hit you on the way out – hello cold, hard cash. TheRead More

So far this year, summer weather has been trading places every few days with crisp sunny days more typical of October. The water temperature is still in the low 50’s and I am wearing a down jacket in the wheelhouse of the Hurricane most mornings. Recreational traffic has been veryRead More

“Sea Gypsies: The Far Side of the World” Written and directed by Nico Edwards. Perf. Clemens Gabriel, Ayack Wanderer, David Bowie. Splendid Entertainment, 2017. 77 mins. Currently available on Amazon. Review by Bob Muggleston What an escape it was to watch this documentary, especially with so much going on. TheRead More

Editor’s Note: June’s Mystery Harbor was drawing nothing but blank stares, so I posted clues on our Facebook page trying to move things along. Specifically, I mentioned the two commercial fishing boats in the picture in front of a gray building with light-blue trim. One of the vessels was aRead More

Annapolis, Md. Louise Kevin Burke, 85, of Annapolis, Md., passed away on June 16 in Danvers, Mass. Born in Swampscott, Mass., Louise was the daughter of the late Edward and Marguerite Kevin. Louise attended Swampscott schools and graduated from Swampscott High School in 1952. She worked as a computer programmerRead More

The Vinalhaven High School class of 2020, in conjunction with the “traditional” (and extremely limited) graduation ceremony on Saturday,  held a lobster boat ceremony the next day to cap off a weekend of celebrations. Organized by the staff graduation committee, the lobster boat ceremony included a speech by their 8thRead More

Wakefield, R.I. Audrey Trowbridge died peacefully on June 10, 2020 in Providence, R.I. She was the wife of the late Edward Remington Trowbridge III. Born in Providence, R.I., she was the daughter of the late George Cundall Davis and Hope Watson Davis. Audrey was an alumni of The Mary C.Read More

This sailboat came ashore on Crane Beach in Ipswich, Mass., during Memorial Day weekend and has remained there for more than a week now. The channel at the entrance to the Ipswich River which runs between Crane Beach and Plum Island is very shallow. I didn’t witness the beaching ofRead More

On May 25 the Masthead Cove Yacht Club (www.mastheadcoveyc.org), an informal “paper” club of about 80 families/couples based in Huntington, N.Y., organized a tribute for COVID-19 first-responders. They descended on the western tip of Sand City Island and arranged themselves in the shape of a heart, all flying pink-and-blue streamersRead More

By David Buckman In a lifetime of sailing there were no cruises richer in beauty, drama and intimacy than those we launched in the 1970s, when cash flow was tight, and we set out to discover the New England and Fundy coasts aboard an old wooden sloop I’d acquired forRead More