June 2024 “Born to Build: Cape Dory . . . A Standard of Value” by Andrew C. Vavolotis and James L. Nelson. ACV Boatworks, LLC, Publisher. 217 pps. $44.95. Review by Bob Muggleston Sailors in New England are well familiar with the many Cape Dory offerings that still, some 30Read More

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

Rochester, N.H. Renowned racing sailboat designer, builder and racer Paul Lindenberg passed away peacefully at St. Anne’s nursing home in Dover, N.H., on May 19. He was 89. Born March 3, 1935 in Anderson, Indiana by parents Herman and Faye Lindenberg, he won many different class sailing events including theRead More

May 2024 By Christopher Birch We just put our boat on Ozempic. It had to happen. For many years my wife Alex and I occasionally indulged in a shameful pleasure: We ran our engine when we were at anchor just to charge the batteries. We knew it was a badRead More

May 2024 By Jean Kerr Salmon is one of our most prized catches in both the northeast and the northwestern U.S. Wild Alaskan and North Atlantic varieties are treasured by seafood lovers and chefs. Salmon thrive in cold ocean water, and being a New Englander, cold water seafood is aRead More

May 2022 By Jack Farrell The talk of the waterfront these days is the terrible disaster in Baltimore that took down much of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six construction workers, closing the port, and disrupting traffic in the region for perhaps years to come. The Singapore-flagged cargo shipRead More

Blue Skies’ stability and versatility made her an ideal sail-training platform, on which more than 100 adults learned to harness the wind, and one particular Buzzards Bay outing proved her merit as an able microcruiser.

When the Catalina Rendezvous invite arrived, we were thrilled. We’d meet Catalina Yachts principals, compare notes with Catalina owners, and be with our people, at Block Island, for three whole days.

Feeling the energy of three geezers: check. My mighty seven-foot craft is nice and dry and bobbing at the float ready to go.

This was a celebration. We had our boat. We had each other. We had the moment. And we had . . . champagne.