The motor yacht Hilarium was docked in the Inner Harbor in Falmouth, Mass., on Sunday, Sept. 11. The 137-foot ship built by Hakvoort in 1984 underwent a repower and repaint by Derecktor Shipyard in Florida in 2014. The ship’s original 12V396 engines were replaced with MTU 16V2000’s, according to CaptainRead More

“Perverse.”

“Punishing.”

These terms applied to the wind conditions in Friendship Harbor on Aug. 6 during the 2016 edition of the Friendship Chowder Cup sailboat race, in Friendship, Maine.

It is a hot Sunday afternoon in late July, and I’m walking across the dusty back lot of a small boat yard in southern Maine a dozen miles from the ocean. Ahead of me in the shimmering heat is a large metal-clad storage shed whose dark-green panels creak in theRead More

You know those little 61⁄2- by 91⁄4-inch, soft-cover books with the sepia-toned covers, the ones that recycle old postcards and photographs to give readers a window into how specific areas appeared during the past 100-plus years? They are called the Postcard History Series Books, are produced by Arcadia Publishers, withRead More

Humor is a rich, but all too rare a commodity among coasters, for we are a serious-minded bunch. Further, many amusing incidents have no witnesses, and a good bit of it is accidental. In 70-odd years of sailing, I have made just about every laughable gaffe there is to beRead More

Most people, however, are interested in the fact that the Castle – basically a fortified home – was where a thousand colonial troops from present-day Massachusetts and Connecticut massed before marching on the Great Swamp in the winter of 1675.

It was an idyllic time, on an idyllic island with perfect weather. But events spun out that changed our lives and our world forever.

As we rounded Appledore Island at the Isle of Shoals Saturday afternoon, I crossed my fingers. It was high season, a weekend, and unbelievably hot ashore, so I feared all the moorings in the Shoals’ Gosport Harbor would be taken. But it was worse than that: Many boats had toRead More

Robinson’s Hole is just south of Woods Hole in the Elizabeth Islands. It is narrow, but well marked. However, the Coast Guard has proposed removing all buoys from it as a cost cutting measure. Below is a Coast Guard notice of a public hearing on the issue, as well asRead More

Yesterday afternoon I watched with delight as this  yawl tacked its way through the narrows of the fox Island Thorofare. We met this morning in Perry’s Creek and the owners explained the prayer flags off the back stay we specifically for getting through tight spaces.  I think their boat handlingRead More