July 2002 By Dodge Morgan F.E. “Ted” Hood once told me that his most important education in boat design came from his experience at the helm of so many different boats during sea trials for his sails. He could not even estimate the total number of these boats and trials.Read More

July, 2002 By Tom Snyder I think I have five books on how to cook aboard a boat. They have comforting titles that speak to me in late winter. I tend to purchase a new cookbook in March after two solid winter months of reading nothing but disaster at sea‚Read More

June, 2002 By Dodge Morgan There’s a daily email of sailing news called “Scuttlebutt.” The coverage is strictly racing. A grand cast of the world’s racing famous report and debate racing matters at an awesome level of technical and personal knowledge and insight. I have even responded with a coupleRead More

June, 2002 By Tom Snyder I am planning to sail to New York City from Portland in June and I want someone else to pay for it. I’ll bet this strategy has occurred to everyone at one time or another. When I was 16, my best friend and I wereRead More

May, 2002 By Dodge Morgan I can get really irked at some things I observe when I’m on the water. The number and frequency of these irritants seem to have increased over the years, perhaps because I was doing many of them myself early in my sailing career and thereforeRead More

May, 2002 By Tom Snyder I can think of no reason why I should not use this column as a vehicle for personal therapy. It is just plain common sense that a respected and beloved writer such as myself, whose column goes out to literally millions of readers in theRead More

April, 2002 By Tom Snyder Welcome to another year of Tom’s Sailing Institute. We are looking forward to a spring semester that will be every bit as exciting as last year’s. With the exception of one accidental death (the case for which will probably be dismissed because I have beenRead More

April, 2002 By Dodge Morgan I have been struggling with how to classify sailing, holistically speaking, that is. I mean what frame of mind do I feel best suits me when I sail or when I simply think about sailing? This is a very personal decision, I can see, becauseRead More

Midwinter, 2002 By Dodge Morgan What does a sailor do in a Maine winter? Work over the spring commissioning list of chores? (This year I’ll finally have her Bristol!) Plan summer cruises? (Sure, I can fit in Chesapeake Bay and Nantucket Sound and Buzzards and Casco and Sheepscot and MuscongusRead More

Midwinter, 2002 By Tom Snyder I have suspected for the past three years that nobody reads my column in these Midwinter issues. My friends tell me not to worry about it because nobody reads it in the summer. I at least know that my friends are wrong about the summer,Read More