Part 2: Cruising by Facebook, Yelp, GPS, and the seats-of-their-pants, the crew of the J/30 Mojo knocks off another leg of their friendship and tourism cruise to visit a venerable New York City lady.

Squirrels in the mast, a hitchhiking bird and end-of-season haul out trouble. Just another season on the water.

That first delivery was an adventure and a lesson in different cruising styles

Part 1: Cruising partner Diana is goal oriented. In 2018, we sailed our J/30 from Cape Cod to Mount Desert Island because she wanted to climb Cadillac Mountain. In 2019, she wanted to climb the Statue of Liberty. Oh boy . . .

An unexpected wildlife incursion tested the mettle of this new captain.

From Rye, N.H., to Block Island, R.I., in a 21-foot Eastern Pilot runabout: I’d been studying this route and planning this cruise for two years, and here I was, Aug. 10, 2022, on the cusp of my adventure.

A week-long gig 100 miles out to sea brings the author back to the early days of his career.

Winter 2023 By Donna Price For Points East Ian and I have been sailing our 44-foot Nordic sailboat Mystic along the coast of Maine over the past four summers. We had never come this far down east before, as work commitments and other constraints always seemed to limit our time.Read More

To cruise from this Maine peninsula to way-Downeast in Passamaquoddy Bay and the Bay of Fundy is to enter a big-tide world with fierce currents, eddies, and the endless joy of being alone.

October/November 2022 By Ian Moore with Jon Kane and Lee Grimes With steady 10 to 15-knot southerlies, sunshine, and record high temperatures, you couldn’t ask for a better forecast for the first sail of 2022. Despite the forecast, I had reminded Jon and Lee several times to bring plenty ofRead More