After a season of renting, repair and questioning, this couple is back in their beloved Sea Ray

The Spray replica Ch’i had been a fixture in Red Brook Harbor for years, and I had passed her happily many times, but this time it was different. Local legend John Burman, her builder and owner, had passed away.

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.

Some basic tips about what you slap on the transom.

May 2024 By Christopher Birch We just put our boat on Ozempic. It had to happen. For many years my wife Alex and I occasionally indulged in a shameful pleasure: We ran our engine when we were at anchor just to charge the batteries. We knew it was a badRead More

Blue Skies’ stability and versatility made her an ideal sail-training platform, on which more than 100 adults learned to harness the wind, and one particular Buzzards Bay outing proved her merit as an able microcruiser.

Feeling the energy of three geezers: check. My mighty seven-foot craft is nice and dry and bobbing at the float ready to go.

May 2024 By David Roper I’d wondered if it would ever come to this, selling Elsa and going “backwards” to a little boat, maybe a trailerable one, whereby the seas and headwinds would no longer thwart an old man’s progress. And she’d have a little cabin. But big enough toRead More

May 2022 By Nico Walsh It’s a lot easier to name powerboats than sailboats. A powerboat can have some cutesy name, or a dreadful pun, and get away with it. At Menemsha’s Dutcher Docks I saw a big motor yacht called Nauti Bunni and the name somehow worked. You’ve seenRead More

No matter what color you choose for your boat, you want it to look professional