The harbor in the Oct./Nov. issue of Points East is Essex, Conn. The Connecticut River Museum, with its cupola and waterside deck, are dead giveaways. One of my first summer jobs was working for a yacht broker housed in the lighthouse on Pratt Street, around the corner from the EssexRead More

In spite of my best-laid plans, a second season has now passed without launching our sloop Aloft. We have used the time to make numerous upgrades, and she now has a totally new rig, engine, and plank fastenings below the waterline. With her updated electronics and refurbished teak cockpit, sheRead More

“BoatSense: Lessons and Yarns from a Marine Writer’s Life Afloat” by Doug Logan; Seapoint Books, 2019; 120 pp.; $19.95. Book review by Charlie Doane What a charming book this is! A slim volume, but with a surprising variety of material in it. There’s a good deal of standard-issue practical adviceRead More

By Marilyn Pond Brigham At the end of a day of cruising aboard Selkie, our Catalina 445, my husband and I are inevitably tired and looking forward to being at the day’s port-of-call, where we can relax and discuss one of the more mundane – yet pleasurable – aspects ofRead More

Belfast, Maine Former Penobscot Bay Compass Adjuster, Robert “Bob” Witherill died on Oct. 31 at Waldo County Hospital in Belfast. He was born on March 22, 1925 in Waterville, Maine. He attended Colby College, the Navy V-12 program at Bates, then U.S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen School at Columbia University andRead More

Brooksville, Maine Theirs was a life lived together – fully. Susan was born in 1944 in New York City, N.Y., to Frances Chester Jones and Edward Jennings Becker. Raised in St. Louis, Mo., she was the first of five children. In 1962 she graduated from John Burroughs High School withRead More

Pewaukee, Wis. Olaf Theodore Harken, 80, passed away Oct. 21, 2019. He was born May 6, 1939 in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia. Olaf died where he lived most of his adult life, in Pewaukee Wisconsin. Olaf and his older brother, Peter, created the hugely successful rope handling business that bears theirRead More

Camden, Maine Captain Leslie “Les” E. Bex, Jr., 81, of Camden, Maine, passed away on Oct. 19, 2019 at the Sussman House in Rockport. Born in Ashland, Wisconsin, on Nov. 24, 1937, he was the son of Leslie and Valeria (Gusneiski) Bex and attended Batavia High School in Illinois, whereRead More

“Nor’ Easter” I work for SeaTow and snapped this  Friday 10-11-2019 while assessing an over turned boat on a mooring in Salem Harbor.

Little Compton, R.I. Phyllis Campbell Field, of Little Compton, R.I., died at home on Oct. 9, 2019 after a long illness. She was the loving wife of Noel M. Field, Jr. for 57 years. Phyllis was born in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 13, 1933 to Allan Campbell and Margaret MarsdenRead More