How group dynamics and loyalty can lead to disaster

  January/February 2022 By Jack Farrell We took delivery of our new Mussel Ridge 46 hull during a freezing rainstorm in the first week of January. After more than a year of planning and design, the hull and deck were completed just before Christmas in Cushing, Maine. At 15 feetRead More

I recently discovered a new boat yoga pose that I call “Eagle Seven.”

January/February 2022 By Ali Wisch In an effort to be completely transparent, I feel the need to disclose something that’s been hanging over my head since our last issue came out. Considering my editorial was titled “Winter Warriors,” one might assume, or it may appear that I was one ofRead More

After months of battling cancer, Patricia passed away on January 8. Patty was the beloved daughter of the late Leonard V. and Jean F. (Brickley) Brophy. Patty graduated from The Academy of Sacred Hearts, Fall River, Mass., and later, Towson State College. For over 40 years, she worked in commercialRead More

Apponaug, Rhode Island Beloved and loving husband of the late Enid (Long) Lawton passed away on January 5th. Roscoe was born at home in Apponaug to Alfred and Maude (Williams) Lawton. Roscoe grew up in North Kingstown and graduated from North Kingstown High School. His first job was as aRead More

Providence, R.I. Preston died in his sleep at Bethany Home on December 27, 2021. Born in Providence in 1922, he was the son of Ernest Preston Brown and Ellen Adkins Atwood. He and his beloved wife Lois, who died in 2019, met in 1945 when he was stationed in herRead More

Southwest Harbor, Maine Ralph W. Stanley died unexpectedly Dec. 7, 2021 at Mount Desert Island Hospital. He was born in Bar Harbor, on Maine’s Mt. Desert Island. His mother was a registered nurse, and his father was a lobster fisherman who also skippered yachts for well-to-do summer residents. Stanley descendsRead More

December 2021 Farewell Mr. Puffin: A Small Boat Voyage to Iceland by Paul Heiney, Adlard Coles, 2021, 256pp, $16.99 Review by Albert J. Mann For Points East Heiney may be on the lookout for Puffins, but to the great joy of readers, he sees so much more. Sailing from hisRead More

December 2021 By Homer Shannon For Points East Boating in New England’s ocean waters requires that you pay attention to the tide. With local average tidal heights from three to twenty feet, ten feet being the norm for most of the ocean-facing coast, inattention to the tide can easily resultRead More