By Tom Snyder One of the most entertaining benefits of the huge number of cruising boats being sold in this heated economy is that now we can read in cruising magazines about cruising adventures by people who have recently bought their first boats. To put it mildly, they have yetRead More

By Dodge Morgan Sailing into Bermuda, on June 7 at 5 in the morning was a very busy event. Wings of time and I folded into a traffic jam of two big square-riggers, an immense cruise ship, a United States Navy submarine and two more sailing yachts not far behindRead More

By Tom Snyder In a recent letter to the editor of this magazine, a reader offered his congratulations, saying that he hoped he would never find herein one of those articles that told readers ‘what radio to buy.’ Exactly! Which is why I hope that the following article about whatRead More

By Dodge Morgan Murray G. Peterson of South Bristol, Maine, was my introduction to the golden age of yacht designers. It was essentially through him that I met, or at least found myself in the presence of, Aage Nielsen, Fenwick Williams, John Alden, Olin Stephens, Ray Hunt, Bill Hand, WilliamRead More

June 1, 2000 By Dodge Morgan How many of us can reach hack into sailing memories to the year 1963? Probably not if you haven’t been sucking on free air for 50 years or more. We codgers will have our own personal snapshots of what most assuredly was the goldenRead More

By Tom Snyder I have always assumed that I am not as thorough a person as I could be. Look, everybody has an area of self-doubt, and that is mine; along with a terrible visual sense (red-green deficient), a hellacious memory (I forget what was supposed to go in theseRead More

By Dodge Morgan In Maine the boatyards are thawed and disheveled forms swinging buckets and paint cans are beginning to appear. The floats are not yet in, but the padlocks on the sheds are open. Mostly the activity is chat. This early, it is difficult to tell the difference betweenRead More

By Tom Snyder I have a secret second boat in Maine. But first, some background. I believe that it was in my first story for Points East that I admitted that I had gone over to the dark side in 1996 when I hit the jackpot, sold my company ofRead More

By Tom Snyder I love my boat and I have promised my wife and kids that I would never buy another boat. This was completely true insofar as any statement of fact can be said by a group of reasonable men to be true. But what if the universe asRead More

By Dodge Morgan When you live on an island in a deep-water bay, you assume that walking home is not an option. This, however, is not the case if your island is in Maine in the winter of 2000. This year’s deep freeze in the Northeast turned many bays intoRead More