December 2009 By Dodge Morgan When this issue of Points East hits the harborsides, I will be in some narrow body of water plowing south with a powerboat under me. Woof. Narrow bodies of water frighten me. One cannot run into hard, fixed objects at sea, and at sea isRead More

October 2009 By Dodge Morgan “It must feel good to know you have the prettiest boat in the harbor,” said the silver-haired gentleman from his dinghy. “We just wanted to get a real close look at your boat,” said the captain of the Monhegan Island Ferry as he swung off-courseRead More

September 2009 By Dodge Morgan Have you noticed how mankind keeps inventing marvelous solutions to problems some of us have, sometimes only to create new problems worse than those we sought to solve? A D10 Cat can clear-cut a forest in one day that it would take a tribe ofRead More

August 2009 By Dodge Morgan At one point in life, the past becomes populated with activities we cannot anymore do – and those we would not even consider doing again. A corollary of this is that time enhances, sometimes creates, past successes, and blurs the failures. I once admitted toRead More

July 2009 By Dodge Morgan A wandering mind is a troublesome thing, can lead to mental acts of socially incorrect nature – or to a boating column like this one. Murray Peterson was a magnificent designer of traditional, wood-built sailboats, and was known for his schooners, of which I haveRead More

June 2009 By Dodge Morgan Since boat owners can be sorted into two categories – those who do their own fitting out and those who pay others to do it – we should review some role definitions for this spring ritual. Counseling the do-it-yourselfers is the easiest. Never carry toolsRead More

June 2009 By Dodge Morgan Since boat owners can be sorted into two categories – those who do their own fitting out and those who pay others to do it – we should review some role definitions for this spring ritual. Counseling the do-it-yourselfers is the easiest. Never carry toolsRead More

May 2009 By Dodge Morgan My investment account has a brand-new profile, the same features displayed half-size like a naked shrunken head. My schooner appears patently unaware of the financial surgery accomplished on her long-term friend. She sits dry and comfortable as always under winter management of her Riverside BoatRead More

April 2009 By Dodge Morgan The Vendée Globe solo, nonstop, around-the-world sailing race has just three boats still to finish on this March 1 date. The race is billed in superlatives as the major human endeavor and test known. The first Vendée Globe was in 1989-90, established by the famedRead More

Midwinter 2009 By Dodge Morgan I wonder if this global recession plays any role in the rash of sad news we have witnessed recently. Olin Stephens died, Francis Stokes died, I sold Wings of Time, and Tom Snyder has put Blue Moon up for sale in an announcement in theRead More