By Jack Farrell Points East We’re five miles out of Portsmouth on an early summer freight run to Star Island. The fine bow of my Royall Lowell-designed Utopia slices through the two-foot chop with grace and power. Ten feet back at the helm, bits of cool spray hit my face,Read More

Guest perspective/Randy Randall Oil tankers are fast. Much faster than you probably think. The behemoth ships that seem to take forever to cross the horizon when you’re offshore are actually moving right along. They’re like an optical illusion – so big and imposing, so long and so wide – thatRead More

Beer is definitely having a moment. I don’t think it’s going too far out on a limb to say that it was once the least-sophisticated member of the booze family, the matriarch of which is wine and its patriarch, spirits. Never snooty or considered much of a jet-setter, maybe moreRead More

Gateway to the Thimbles The harbor in the June 2019 issue of Points East is Stony Creek, in Branford, Conn. The shot appears to have been taken while standing on the end of the ferry dock looking north. The ferry dock provides access to the Thimble Islands roughly a mileRead More

Wenham, Mass. Llewellyn Howland III of Boston and Wenham, Mass., died in his sleep at home on Friday, June 21. The cause was lung cancer. Born Aug. 21, 1937, Louie grew up in South Dartmouth, Mass., and was an ardent sailor and yachting skipper in his youth. He graduated fromRead More

Captain Pam Parker of the Maine DEP christens “Headmaster”, the new pumpout boat of the Friends of Casco Bay. The ceremony, emceed by the Friends Executive Director Cathy Ramsdell, was hosted by Phin and Joanna Sprague of Portland Yacht Services on Monday. Jim Splude will captain the new vessel asRead More

The first exchange of greetings between Zeke’s Point and the American Eagle; three quick honks of the Lathrop Fog Horn replied by bell ringing and exchange of hat waving. Summer has officially started in the Fox Island Thorofare! Lynn Whitney

San Diego, Calif. Lowell North, founder of North Sails, passed away June 2 with his wife Bea by his side in San Diego, Calif. He was 89 years old. Born in Springfield, Missouri, North was 14 when his curiosity led to him re-cutting the mainsail of his Star boat. ARead More

York, Maine Robert G. Gray, of York, Maine, passed away peacefully on Friday, May 31, with his devoted wife, Annie, by his side. Born on Sept. 16, 1922 near Bristol, England to Alfred and Maude Gray, Robert demonstrated from an early age a curious, inquisitive mind with the desire toRead More

Warwick, R.I. William “Bill” Plumb passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, May 30, after a courageous fight with pancreatic cancer. He was the beloved husband of 47 years to Nancy J. (Tanner) Plumb. Born in Providence, a son of the late Charles C. Plumb, Jr. and Barbara E. (Upham)Read More