People and personalities

Dinghy drift social hour, in which pvc pipe has been creatively used to deliver both cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. New friends are easy to make in the liveaboard life. Photo courtesy Mike Camarata

There are some truly amazing people out there on the water. We at Points East feel blessed to have met such a wide group of diverse, helpful, funny, and, on occasion, catankerous folk that make up the New England marine community.


The old man and the Ch’i

The Spray replica Ch’i had been a fixture in Red Brook Harbor for years, and I had passed her happily many times, but this time it was different. Local legend John Burman, her builder and owner, had passed away.
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Modeling life

But always there comes a point when the sands of time have almost drained from the glass, when there’s little chance left to share what really matters.
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.Jack of all trades . . .

. . and master of most. Capt. Linda Greenlaw Wessel is a renaissance woman of seacoast life, the writing craft, mariculture, the charter trade, and commercial fishing in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Here’s what makes her tick.
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The Jock Williams imperative

Sustaining lifelong relationships with mariners, as well as building, selling and maintaining boats, has been the foundation of John “Jock” Williams’ vision for a boatyard for the past half-century.
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A sailing love yarn

Spring 2023 By Bob Kowalski A few years back I was in Granada sitting out the hurricane season. It’s sort of the center of where people that live on boats go that time of year, there’s a big community of like-minded people there. Granada is
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