July 2024 By Bob Muggleston A good friend of the magazine who lives in Maine recently sent me the photo below, which he’d taken in the vicinity of Brunswick. In the subject line of the email he wrote, “A bad way to start the boating season.” Indeed. Anytime you leaveRead More

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 By Don Street For decades, prior to reliable weather forecasting, skippers delivering yachts in the fall from the U.S. East Coast to the Caribbean relied on a narrow weather window. Basically you had a month between the end of the traditional hurricane season in October and the galesRead More

The manual had offered a warning of the problem that was to come.

Making the best of a difficult situation.

Fall 2023 By Tim Plouff It was shaping up to be one of those summer days that boaters dream about; clear skies, soft southerly breeze, and a warm sun. With the truck and boat prepped for travel, I hit the road just after sunrise headed south for Bath and aRead More

We’ve heard (and possibly experienced) many of these disasters before. They still make for great reading.

September 2023 By David Roper We were headed out into the Bermuda Triangle on a delivery from Rhode Island to St. Thomas on an untested vessel. With me was Hobie, a fellow river pilot who’d never sailed or been on the ocean, and two other crew, Mark and Artie, whoRead More

September 2023 By Peter Dragonas It was a cold and snowy December evening when friend George and his wife Judy came over for dinner. Great company from the yacht club always makes for a pleasant evening, reminiscing about past sailing adventures. We live in a town on Boston’s North ShoreRead More

Dave’s delivery becomes increasingly grim as the weather and crew deterioriate.