Reviewed by Sandy Marsters For Points East I have never met author Roger Taylor but he has nevertheless had an outsized influence on my boating life. First it was his 1977 book, “Good Boats,” a luscious coffee-table catalogue of the cruising boats that Taylor felt represented the cream of theRead More

Of all the 1,100-plus lakes in New Hampshire, including Lake Winnipesaukee (which is actually more like a mini inland-sea) none is more entrancing than Lake Sunapee. It is 11 miles long. And it recently boasted the world’s largest Star-class fleet of racing sailboats.

“It’s not what you look at that matters; it’s what you see,” Henry David Thoreau wrote. He might have been thinking about this vessel. I know I was. And I knew I was looking at something beautiful. Something still beautiful. Others strolled by, seeing nothing, or stopped, looking surreptitiously, maybeRead More

To purposely run editorial content that ties in with a product or service advertised in the same issue, thus further promoting that product or service, is frowned upon. Yet, in this issue, Points East is not only plugging a simple, efficient boating device that’s advertised in the magazine, we areRead More

Sandy and I moved my boat yesterday from summer quarters in Winthrop Harbor to winter quarters at Constitution Marina in Charleston.

10-21-15 Calm but crisp fall day on the Fox Island T’fare. As  I headed by whaler to pick up the mail in North Haven, I was fortunate to cross wakes with this lovely vessel, Rebecca of Vineyard Haven. A couple of warmly clad men in the cockpit appeared to beRead More

Greg Coppa’s Guest Perspective on page 12 – “The Making of a Boat Guest” – hints of a cultural disconnect between those who are schooled in the ways of boats and the water and those who aren’t. This lack of understanding on the part of the latter group can resultRead More

It may not be New England, but that doesn’t mean Long Island boaters don’t love Points East. Here’s reader Tom Mulstay sporting his Points East cap on Fire Island. Any other of you Long Islanders hooked on Points East?

Ask New Englanders where and when North America’s first colony was established, and most will likely say Jamestown, Va., in 1607. Jamestown’s claim may be true – in a tenuous way: Records tell us that Maine’s Popham Colony was also settled that year, near the mouth of the Kennebec River.Read More

Spotted at Centerboard yesterday. Once a PE cover girl.