November 25, 2024 at 12:00 am
December 2024 By Will Gerstmyer Anyone who has partnered with a sailboat and felt her sails fill, and her hull rise, can attest to the beauty of sailing. One minute there is flailing, and the next? All is balanced and breathtaking. For those of us who succumb to this particularRead More
February 5, 2024 at 12:00 am
Sailors always seem to be looking on the bright side of life.
February 5, 2024 at 12:00 am
The manual had offered a warning of the problem that was to come.
November 20, 2023 at 12:00 am
Making the best of a difficult situation.
September 25, 2023 at 12:00 am
It was my last sailing trip of the summer: late August, with the school year looming and syllabi still unwritten for my fall classes at the University of Maine. But one piece of business on the water remained.
September 25, 2023 at 12:00 am
The question we get asked most about this lifestyle is, hands down, “What do you do all day on a boat?”
July 24, 2023 at 12:00 am
August 2023 By Pat Brogan We started cruising in Tilly Twin, the 35.5’ Laurent Giles-designed ocean racer in the spring of 1962, when I was nine years old. We cruised the same harbors that we previously did while sailing Flame, the Herreshoff 23 that kicked off our family cruising tradition,Read More
July 24, 2023 at 12:00 am
Lessons learned — the hard way.
March 20, 2023 at 12:00 am
That first delivery was an adventure and a lesson in different cruising styles