We know that tales of disasters, mishaps and general screw ups are a part of being on the water. While we don’t celebrate them, we acknowledge a powerful interest in these stories and recognize their educational value. With that in mind, we offer you some of our favorite tales of woe from years gone by.
The man on the beach
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
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A legacy destroyed and reborn
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.
Read MoreSaved by a half-gallon coffee pot
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
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