Sailboats

Fifty-three square meters. That’s 570 square feet. Not much for a cattle rancher, but for a flybridge on a motoryacht, I’d say that’s pretty posh.

Few things are dreaded more by those who go to sea than things that go bump in the night. Snoozing whales, ice in higher latitudes,

What if? It’s an interesting question that can revive boring dinner conversations and inspire books, such as Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us (one of

Sailing on the “good ship serendipity” is a promising tactic for punching your ticket to adventure. It never takes a straight course and often docks

“Ready?” the skipper asks. The guys nod as they stack up on the windward rail, all the way aft. Everything is just as it always

They call him Doc. Not for what he does now, but for what once was his occupation: flying helicopter search-and-rescue missions as a hospital corpsman

Go ahead, twist your tongue and call him Poprishchin, the protagonist in Nikolai Gogol’s short story “Diary of a Madman.” Although he’s not a schizophrenic

Away from the spotlight of micromanaged prime-time sailing events, a little celebration is in order this summer. The place couldn’t be more picturesque: Lake Lucerne

How many times this past week did you use the term polymath? Me? Less than once. It’s a word that is rarely used because people

It was a gray day off California. Under a thinning blanket of fog, the Pacific was yawning and stretching to wake up, its surface barely