September 2007 By Mike Martel This recipe, named after Block Island’s Hotel Manisses, is good for a cold, wet day in an away-harbor when the wind is up, and it’s cloudy and raining and you’re swinging on a hook or a mooring and it’s too early yet to go ashoreRead More

September 2007 By Tom Snyder I realize that what I’m about to say is potent stuff. Therefore, I shall limit myself to measured language. But darn it, I want to get the government off our backs. I thought we lived in America, but, no, once again there’s a new raftRead More

A severe thunderstorm, covering many square miles of ocean, stalked our old gaff-yawl as she sailed home to Bristol, R.I., from Block Island.

August 2007 By Dodge Morgan Technology is the sweet siren on the rocks wearing a Medusa headdress. The call from a distance is seductive but the closer you get, the uglier she is, and the lopping off of one snake of confusion only produces a plethora of bewilderment. If youRead More

August 2007 By Tom Snyder If you give a present in a very big box to a very young kid – often a boy – you have a fifty-fifty shot that the box will become the main attraction. A magic box. The heck with the cool, multi-colored, perfectly textured toyRead More

July 2007 By Dodge Morgan The ravages of time can cause troublesome consequences for the sailor and his mate. The pair has sailed together over so many years that individual roles on the boat have been refined with precision and become unquestioned habit. When circumstances challenge the established routine, itRead More

July 2007 By Tom Snyder My childhood memory of the materials and mixtures and alchemy that went along with a sailboat is of a pungent, romantic and manly world. There was fragrant Italian marline that you just knew was spun and dipped by an old Italian, and there was itsRead More

June 2007 By Dodge Morgan My long personal familiarity with Einstein affords me the privilege of calling him Albert. I bonded with Albert because I had the natural gift of knowing how to expand the scope of his thinking to levels of pragmatic understanding – and also because we agreedRead More

June 2007 By Tom Snyder Every week, hundreds of boating questions are sent to my website. Below are a few the most recent. But first, may I quickly use this pulpit to say that I resent any suggestion that I have been writing questions to myself in order to createRead More

May 2007 By Dodge Morgan The word “spandrel” began life in an architectural lexicon. It defines the accidental and useless spaces between functional shapes, like the “V” that appears between a pair of arches and the triangle of space that happens beneath a staircase. I think it is wonderful thatRead More