Friday evening 9/3/21 Penobscot Bay experiences some unusual cloud formations and the weather along with it.

The Town Harbormaster found me a choice spot for two days after cruising the Kennebec and Sheepscot Rivers for several days in my 1959 23′ Lyman Sleeper. Gene Porter Nashua, N.H.

September 2021 By Mark Barrett The southwest wind was whipping through the Cape Cod Canal, and it would be right on my nose with a west-running tide. I wasn’t sure I could make headway against the wind with the little outboard on my 40-year-old J/24. I consulted “Eldridge Tide andRead More

September 2021 By Christopher Birch “I just clogged up the toilet on the company plane and I need your help,” was how the scandalous text chain with my boat service customer started. “We’re going to be up for another four hours. There is only one toilet on this thing andRead More

Morgana was rocking gently in her slip without any new bumps, dings, or worse. I could, and had, docked Morgana in a slip for the first time! I had stayed the course despite my fears, inexperience, and self-doubt.

September 2021 By Ali Wisch When I “entered” the 2021 Flip Flop Regatta, it was more like I invited myself to join my friend Isaac’s boat. Okay – that is, precisely, what it was. We’d sailed together a few times, bringing his Pearson 33, Seabiscuit, back and forth through theRead More

September 2021 By Homer Shannon It was the morning of July 14, 1999. Three boats from the American Yacht Club in Newburyport, Mass.; Carpe Diem, Overtime and Cinderella, were anchored way up in Quahog Bay. Homer and Dee Shannon from Cinderella had just returned from a short trip in theirRead More

Do we really need 1,200 hp on a boat designed for cocktail cruises?

Well, look where I am! Too funny! I picked up your magazine from West Marine in Hyannis and pulled over to flip through it a little after work on my way home. I pulled over at my normal after work de-stressing spot, on the side of Route 28 in Harwich,Read More

Atlantic crossing? Let’s think about that a little more.