“Does anyone actually build their own boat anymore?”

It was very difficult to choose our winner this month. Our two top contenders not only correctly identified the body of water, but also the vantage point from which the photo was taken (by former Points East editor Nim Marsh, by the way). In the end the panel gave anRead More

Spring 2023 By Jack Farrell When my passion to become a respectable sailor was at its peak many years ago, I was a voracious consumer of the practical literature of the sea. While I spent my summer weekends at the self-directed school of hard nautical knocks, my winter evenings wereRead More

Spring 2023 The Compleat Cruiser – the Art, practice, and Enjoyment of Boating By L. Francis Herreshoff, published by Sheridan House, 1963. By Randy Randall Arthur Wiley was a farmer, an airplane pilot, a welder, an inventor, a mechanic and a teacher. He was also Gary’s father-in-law, and when GaryRead More

It’s definitely one of the uglier fish out there, but the taste is amazing.

As a kid, I was always at the boatyard with my dad whenever he worked on a Brogan family boat. It was 50/50 work and play, with a 100 percent chance of unexpected revelations.

Spring 2023 By David Roper It could be his last night on earth. But twenty-seven year old Sam Martin doesn’t know that yet. It’s 9:35 pm. Saturday, January 5, 2004. It’s 12 degrees Fahrenheit, and the wind is gusty and southwest. Sam is sitting on his usual stool in theRead More

Spring 2023 By Joe Burke Recent headlines have me thinking about a 14’ wooden lapstrake skiff I used to own. After a winter season in my basement, bailouts were what the first few outings were all about. Its cedar strakes, copper riveted to dainty oak frames, contracted during the off-seasonRead More

Editor’s note: One of the many benefits of editing Points East is meeting, usually via email, its contributors and getting to know them a bit. Not only did Peter write some amazing pieces over the years for this magazine, but he became someone I considered a friend. We corresponded regularlyRead More

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Elaine “Lainie” Snow Porter, 82, of Heckman’s Island, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, died on March 6. Born Dec. 7, 1940, to Ward and Dorothy Snow of Blue Hill, Maine, Lainie graduated from George Steven’s Academy (Blue Hill) in 1959 and went on to study at Gorham State TeachersRead More