Warwick, R.I. Barbara died Sept. 7. She lived most of her life in Edgewood, R.I.; the last four years in Warwick. An avid sailor and honorary life member of the Edgewood Yacht Club, she was a Beetle Cat Wet Hens Champion for six consecutive years. She was a member andRead More

Severna Park, Md. Ron was well-known in the sailing/racing world, and held many awards for his contribution to the administration of the sport. He was past commodore of the Annapolis Yacht Club, the Potapskut Sailing Association, and the Pasadena Sailing Association, and president of Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association, asRead More

Mike Martel’s restored yawl Privateer is seen on Narragansett Bay during a recent cruise with his children and their spouses. Mike is a frequent contributor to Points East.

The day’s forecast was five to 10 southwest, gusting to 20 in the afternoon, but as we crested the hill over the marina, all we could see was a flat, mirrored surface on the bay, with an Opti fleet seemingly riveted to it. “Hope you find some wind out there,”Read More

The Sea is Not Full: Ocean Sailing Revelations & Misadventures By Charles J. Doane, Seapoint Books, 2017; 437 pp., $17.62. Reviewed by Bob Muggleston For Points East One of the things I’ve always loved about sailing literature, beyond the purity of escape it so frequently provides, is how often theRead More

“A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.” Lord Nelson Until he went to sea with young Cubby on his sail back from Maine in a small cruising sloop, Big Red hadn’t been seasick and never dizzy when he got ashore. That was because he’d spent hisRead More

Cruise of the Leight, Part 6: I had imagined my summer of cruising as a “sailabout” of sorts, sharing qualities of the aboriginal Australians’ walkabouts. I was seeking the peace of wild places, mysteries of nature, depths of solitude, and the incomprehensible energy of the sea. I wanted to lieRead More

Guest perspective: Greg Jones I am a bridge tender. Some call bridge tenders America’s first line of defense, ever-vigilant monitors of the nation’s maritime lifeline. Some. Maybe. Maybe our mothers, who long ago despaired of us becoming doctors or lawyers. Others are, necessarily, less flattering. Mention the subject of bridgeRead More

Guest perspective: Sue Cornell There are some bucket-list experiences which, when ticked off, make it to the to-do-again-next-year list. The autumn tree-swallow spectacular on the Connecticut River is a perfect example. Not so long ago, only a few birders and locals knew about the phenomenon in which up to 400,000Read More

In this column, I share stories from the Isles of Shoals and beyond. Some six miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Piscataqua River, this amazing place is host to a variety of interesting vessels, wildlife and people – a rest stop on the East Coast maritime highway. We finallyRead More