August 2024 By Bob Muggleston My days of competitive sailboat racing ended many years ago, but I still find the big offshore events endlessly fascinating, mostly because of the stakes involved and the drama that invariably occurs when men (and increasingly, women) head for blue water at a time notRead More

If you can correctly identify this harbor, you’ll be on your way to winning a fine Points East designer cap. To qualify, identify the harbor AND tell us something about the harbor, such as how you recognized it and some reasons you like to hang out there. We’ll pick aRead More

I often wonder if our top goal should be to achieve a Zen state that would permit us to embrace the emptiness of a lazy day instead of constantly striving to fill it.

People greeter, therapy provider and scrap sniffer… every boatyard should have one

Why not plan a Maine coast cruise around a weeklong WoodenBoat School boatbuilding class that would send us home to Provincetown with a 15-foot, marine-plywood, clinker sailing dinghy?

August 2024 By Jack Farrell We had just finished loading propane and diesel on the Shining Star for Star Island on a scorching July afternoon along the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth. The tide was at peak flood. As we disconnected the diesel hose, a call came over the radio fromRead More

August 2024 By Chuck Radis Scott Dolan silently rowed his dinghy out to his 15-foot sailboat from the TEIA wharf on Peaks Island. After a recent storm, he wanted to bail out the boat. Tying the dinghy off on his mooring, he grabbed the gunnel, shifted his weight, and slungRead More

How do they all know to turn at the same time?

In winter 2022, I asked son Randy when we’d last cruised Downeast, thinking it was two or three years. When he said, “2018,” I was shocked. And Muscobe’s home waters of Maine welcomed us big-time.

Far from lacking conveniences, a small boat provides much more in terms of simplicity.