Regular contributor Randy Randall sent us these images from his Marston’s Marina on the Saco River. His crew has wrapped up the process of clearing the floats from the river and storing them in the parking lot of the marina where they will spend the winter. He sent this messageRead More

Regular contributor Dan Raycroft sent in the attached image of the Ipswich River on Friday night, showing the Schooner Isabella which came up the river to witness the lighting of the bonfires. “Rarely do we see anything larger than an outboard skiff this far up the Ipswich River,” Dan wrote.Read More

Pelagians Attend the 2024 Gloucester Schooner Race Fall 2024 By Brian R. McMahon Over the Labor Day Weekend, Russ Vickers and his Apple Blossom crew, Brian Herr and his Imagine crew, and your author and his wife Martha with Barbara Iannoni onboard En Garde! joined the spectator fleet off theRead More

Fall 2024 By Brian R. McMahon I’ll be unloading En Garde! and making a forlorn trip to Manchester Marine for an early haul out soon Looking for an easy overnight cruise, I suggested that Jill and Larry join me in a trip to Gloucester Inner Harbor. Rich and Melanie AfrikianRead More

Fall 2024 By Brian R. McMahon On a recent car club excursion, members went aboard the vintage fishing schooner Adventure, lying dockside in Gloucester, Mass., before enjoying a harborside dinner at Decklyn’s Restaurant. It was a brief walk to the schooner Adventure’s quai, where our guide was Greg Bover, ship’sRead More

Reston, Va. Sailmaking pioneer Steve Haarstick, 82, crossed the fleet for the final time on Oct. 8. Steve was an avid Star sailor, beginning in 1959. It was a combination of his love for the Star and a strong engineering background that led Steve to a career as a sailmaker.Read More

The Schooner Bowdoin was spotted by our ever-vigilant ad rep Lynn Whitney from her perch on the Thorofare this weekend.  Bowdowin is the official vessel of the State of Maine, and the flagship of Maine Maritime Academy’s Vessel Operations and Technology program. Designed by William H. Hand, Jr under theRead More

Fall 2024 By Mark Barrett One fine Boston morning in the fall of 1995 I was informed by my wife that we were moving to Cape Cod. She had been hired – her first job out of Suffolk Law School – as an assistant district attorney for Barnstable County. ThatRead More

If you can correctly identify this harbor, you’ll be on your way to winning a fine Points East designer cap. To qualify, identify the harbor AND tell us something about the harbor, such as how you recognized it and some reasons you like to hang out there. We’ll pick aRead More

One man’s go-to itinerary for a fall cruise from Maine to warmer points south for the winter: The destinations the author describes deserve more than overnights, but, for this article, he’s in delivery mode.