After years of crewing, she’s now firmly at the helm of her own boat.

How To Build a Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt by Robb White. Hyperion Books. 2003. 228 pp. $45 (Hardcover). September 2023 Reviewed by Bob Muggleston Ever meet someone who might have missed his calling? After reading “How to Build a Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt,” byRead More

September 2023 By Bob Muggleston I have a confession to make: Despite being aware that Maine is a world-class vacation and sailing destination, especially in summer, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been there. In fact, prior to the family vacation I went on atRead More

And you, too, can be at Hingham Shipyard Marinas, as was the original Kilroy in the mid-1940s, when the site was known as the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, which built warships to help keep our country free.

Camden, Maine Francis “Frank” Joseph O’Hara Sr., 91, died on Aug. 3, at his home in Camden, Maine, surrounded by his family. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on Oct. 29, 1931, he was the son of Francis Joseph and Dorothy (MacCalduff) O’Hara. He married Donna “Jill” Hildreth in Portland, Maine, onRead More

Frequent contributor Dan Raycroft caught this image Thacher Island off Cape Ann just past sunset recently. The Cape Ann Light Station on Thacher Island is nationally significant as the last light station to be established under colonial rule and the first station in the United States to mark a navigationalRead More

August 2023 By Jack Farrell “Security call, security call, security call. The motor vessel Shining Star is outbound from Portsmouth Harbor to the Isles of Shoals, passing Fort Point Light. We’re standing by on channels 13 and 16 for concerned traffic. Shining Star.” Such was the regular refrain during aRead More

. . and master of most. Capt. Linda Greenlaw Wessel is a renaissance woman of seacoast life, the writing craft, mariculture, the charter trade, and commercial fishing in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Here’s what makes her tick.

August 2023 By Pat Brogan We started cruising in Tilly Twin, the 35.5’ Laurent Giles-designed ocean racer in the spring of 1962, when I was nine years old. We cruised the same harbors that we previously did while sailing Flame, the Herreshoff 23 that kicked off our family cruising tradition,Read More

Lessons learned — the hard way.