Great expectations
Sailors always seem to be looking on the bright side of life.
Sailors always seem to be looking on the bright side of life.
The manual had offered a warning of the problem that was to come.
Making the best of a difficult situation.
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.
The question we get asked most about this lifestyle is, hands down, “What do you do all day on a boat?”
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
Lessons learned — the hard way.
June 2023 By Donald Street In mid-September, while in Rhode Island, I happened to spot a massive sailing yacht at a marina in Jamestown. I love to wander through boatyards and marinas, looking at the variety of vessels, so I walked to the end of the dock, discovering that theRead More
That first delivery was an adventure and a lesson in different cruising styles
An unexpected wildlife incursion tested the mettle of this new captain.