A practical resignation is not the same as giving up. It is an unresisting acceptance of the inevitable – and it includes patience, submission, tolerance and fortitude.

Restrictions of a worldwide virus made working online from home the norm, so, with our Nordic 44 Mystic waiting in Maine, why not call her home-in-transit for a few weeks and set sail?

“How to move. When to move. If you had to think about it, you weren’t going on the boat.” The boat was Galatea – a 38-foot steel-hulled yawl that was sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 1964 – and the remembrance is courtesy of Charlie Olcott, one ofRead More

Review by Bob Muggleston “Beyond Mermaids: Life’s Tangles, Knots and Bends” by David H. Roper. Points East Publishing, Inc., 2021. 138 pp. $9.99. As the editor of this magazine, reviewing a book that has been written by one of Points East’s columnists might seem a little subjective. But I amRead More

June 2021 By Jean Kerr Massachusetts may have its sacred cod, but Connecticut has its shad. Although only adopted as the official Connecticut “State Fish” (who knew?) in 2003, shad was being happily consumed long before white settlers landed on New England shores. While shad consumption has declined substantially overRead More

June 2021 By David Roper Let’s face it: We humans are fascinated with screens. They’re everywhere. At every boat show there are throngs around the latest electronic breakthroughs. The marine store catalogs are filled with page after page of electronics. On boats, these electronics have elevated the neophyte boater toRead More

The boat was old, but the price was right and she served them well for many years.

Rodger Martin passed away May 14, 2021, while awaiting a lung transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Rodger was best known in the yachting world for his diversity of modern yachts. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and spent his youth on the water. As heRead More

Falmouth, Maine William Whipple Poole died May 13, 2021. Bill grew up in Portland, started his studies at Dartmouth College, and joined the U.S. Army in 1943 to serve in the European Theater in the 158th Combat Engineering Unit of Patton’s Third Army. He fought at the Battle of theRead More

Cranston, R.I. Andrew Blaine Burkhardt, “Andy”, whose news judgment and deft editing helped shape reports in The Providence Journal for decades, died May 3 after a 5-year struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. In his years at the Journal and its one-time sister newspaper, the now-defunct Evening Bulletin, Mr. Burkhardt held severalRead More