May 2024 By Bob Muggleston Here in Connecticut the daffodils are blooming and the peepers are in full throat. Can it finally be spring? Mother Nature has been reluctant to show her cards. Two late-season snowstorms in ski country had me running back to Vermont, while here in Southern NewRead More

May 2024 I recognized it at first glance! The Mystery Harbor featured in the Spring issue of Points East is Red Brook Harbor in Cataumet, Mass., at the west end of the Cape Cod Canal. We keep our Albin 34, Paumanok, at Kingman Yacht Center (KYC), and your photo isRead More

“Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World” by Eric Jay Dolin. Liveright Publishing Corporation. 2024. 314 pp. $24.25.   Reviewed by Bob Muggleston The Falkland Islands, for those of us of a certain age, are generally the place of an undeclared war that tookRead More

May 2024 By David Roper I’d wondered if it would ever come to this, selling Elsa and going “backwards” to a little boat, maybe a trailerable one, whereby the seas and headwinds would no longer thwart an old man’s progress. And she’d have a little cabin. But big enough toRead More

May 2022 By Nico Walsh It’s a lot easier to name powerboats than sailboats. A powerboat can have some cutesy name, or a dreadful pun, and get away with it. At Menemsha’s Dutcher Docks I saw a big motor yacht called Nauti Bunni and the name somehow worked. You’ve seenRead More

No matter what color you choose for your boat, you want it to look professional

Camden, Maine James Galbraith Bennett III, 70, of Camden, Maine, passed away at Maine Medical Center on April 14. He was the son of the late Barbara H. Bennett and James G. Bennett, Jr., originally of Wayzata, Minnesota, more recently of Woolwich, Maine. Jim graduated from Darien High School inRead More

Newcastle, Maine Paul Stephen Bryant passed away on the evening of April 7 at Cove’s Edge in Damariscotta, Maine. Born on August 12, 1943 to Creston and Kathlyn (Higgins) Bryant, Paul grew up in Newcastle. He built a house next door, where he raised his family and worked “down theRead More

It was mid-July and only the third trip of the season, as the summer of 2023 was proving to be unusually wet and gray. Too many days had been overcome by fog on the coast of Maine, but this particular day was warm and sunny as we headed south on the Kennebec River. My 2000 SeaRay 215 Express Cruiser, Tegoak, was working fine – until it wasn’t.

What’s it all about, this life aboard a floating home called a boat? I asked myself this question for two years, during which time I lived aboard a Freedom 36 with my partner.