After a season with only two of the Maine Windjammer Association schooners sailing due to Covid-19, it’s with great pleasure the Victory Chimes (fondly referred to as ‘the jingler’) came through the Fox Island Thorofare. An exchange between the Lathrop fog horn and Captain Sikkema with waves and cheersRead More

Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. B. Devereux Barker III, passed away peacefully on June 16. Born in Boston, Dev spent childhood summers in Marblehead, where he discovered his lifelong love of sailing at the Pleon and Eastern Yacht Clubs. After attending Noble and Greenough School, he graduated from Harvard in 1960, and thenRead More

Bruno Bich died on May 30, 2021. Son of Marcel Bich, founder of BIC, Bruno devoted́ his entire professional life to the company and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1993-2006, and Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2018. Bruno attended New York University Business School, thenRead More

April 2020 By David Buckman I’m responding to Capt. Mike Martel, who ran on about his famous chowder and clam-cake recipes in the Midwinter issue. I mean, it’s bloody boiled fish. Aboard the sloop Leight, we aspire to greater culinary heights, amply demonstrated by this photo of my home-fries, steak,Read More

June 2021 By Bob Muggleston Last Friday, anticipating the weekend’s Connecticut Spring Boat Show at Essex Island Marina in Essex, Connecticut, a local news station flew a drone over Essex Harbor during their morning broadcast. Now, I’ve seen overhead shots of the area before – check out Jerry Roberts’ fineRead More

A brief history of the wild Elizabeth Islands off Cape Cod, including how a prominent Boston Brahmin family has, for generations, shared its wealth with recreational mariners.

Photo courtesy Roger Long June 2021 By Roger Long Senior year in high school was when I put away childish things and became fully obsessed with boats. I’d made a weeklong cruise in my 10’ dinghy with a boom tent the summer before on Lake George, and was teaching myselfRead More

June 2021 By Christopher Birch In 1999, my father built a rowboat. He named her after his granddaughter Heidi, who was born the same year. The boat has provided excellent service for our family and especially for me. I calculate she has been towed and rowed over 35,000 nautical miles,Read More

Review by Bob Muggleston “Go By Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor” by Dr. Chuck Radis. Down East Books, 2021. 185 pp. $24.95. In the 1991 movie “Doc Hollywood,” city slicker Ben Stone (played by Michael J. Fox), who has just completed his medical residency, crashes his Porsche tryingRead More

Not Maine – Connecticut! That’s the view from the empty Guilford Town Marina in Guilford, Conn. One of the keys to identifying this location is the red shack in the background [not visible in the shot posted in the magazine, but definitely visible in the shot posted on Points East’sRead More