In keeping with the saying “when life gives you lemons . . . ,” we need to make the best of the forced COVID-19 quarantine. Besides, boating is all about switching to plan B or C, isn’t it? For those of us lucky enough to be both economically and physicallyRead More

I have been sailing and fishing on the Chesapeake Bay from the Annapolis area for over 38 years. Initially I raced and cruised a S2 7.9 sailboat and when the season opens I will be fishing and cruising my Albemarle 26.8 sport fisherman. Needless to say, after looking at theRead More

Somerville, Mass. Charlie Proctor, who crewed for his sailing-icon dad Ched in victory at the 2018 Lightning North American Championship, was killed in a bicycling accident on May 5 in Arlington, Mass. Charlie was 27 years old. Charlie and his girlfriend, Alison Piasecki, were riding their bikes through the intersectionRead More

Stonington, Maine On May 5, Stonington lost one of its own iconic characters: boatyard owner and operator, Harlan Richard Billings. Harlan, who spent time between homes in Palm City, Fla., and Stonington, Maine, said goodbye to his good friends in the South before making the long journey north with hisRead More

Newport, R.I. Virginia Helen (Monigle) Long of Newport, R.I., passed into the next life on May 3, following a long struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. She lived for 80 remarkable years. Ginny grew up in Millbury, Mass., the oldest daughter of Charles and Helen Monigle, along with her brother, Bill, andRead More

Warwick, R.I. Jack M. Thompson died May 1. He was a lifelong resident of Warwick, R.I. He was a son of the late Othman Clarence and Lillian (Baxter) Thompson, and was born Jan. 8, 1929, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. He graduated from Wesleyan University and Columbia School of Journalism. HeRead More

As a young man dreaming of the sea, I read all the great authors, from Nordhoff and Hall to Defoe and Melville, but the writer who ultimately fascinated me the most became Captain Joshua Slocum. Some passage in an excerpt piqued my interest; it was a passage wherein he describedRead More

While this is a challenging time for all businesses, the folks at Hallett Sails haven’t allowed that fact to get them down. They’ve pivoted from their usual production to making masks for the community. This has allowed them to continue paying their employees and even add some furloughed family membersRead More

The State of Massachusetts has issued a set of guidelines for boaters during the current stay-at-home advisory. You may download them below: Massachusetts Boating Guidelines as of April 27, 2020  

I am an “out of state” boater. My boat, Zanzibar, is on the hard at Brewers (aka Safe Harbor) Warwick, RI but I live in Greenland NH. R.I. has said that anyone visiting their boat from out of state must self-quarantine for two weeks. This is clearly not a viableRead More