Sea Stories – August 2021
July 6, 2021
What We’re Watching Onne’s New Goose Onne van der Wal, the world-famous marine photographer, is at it again. A few years ago, he completely refitted
What We’re Watching Onne’s New Goose Onne van der Wal, the world-famous marine photographer, is at it again. A few years ago, he completely refitted
Traditional navigation skills are a hallmark of prudent seamanship, and they can be lifesaving when you’re at sea.
On July 24, 2013, lobsterman John Aldridge fell overboard 40 miles off Long Island, New York, as his fishing partner aboard Anna Mary, Anthony Sosinski, slept below.
The Great Lakes are the largest source of fresh surface water in the world, providing food, work and recreation for millions. Yet they are under threat, and their problems are worsening.
Last September a ship was discovered on the bottom of an Arctic bay, solving a more than 170-year-old mystery — the fate of Sir John
Andrew Halcrow was in his 20s when he built Elsi Arrub, a 32-foot ketch, and sailed her around the world with his brother, a voyage
In Around Cape Horn Once More, Paul W. Simpson tells the story of Montebello, a French-built clipper ship that was lost off Australia in 1906.
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914-17 Antarctic expedition is one of maritime history’s most incredible survival stories. When Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice
The sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, may be the most thoroughly researched and chronicled maritime disaster in history, but we know little
“From the start,” George Michelson Foy writes in Finding North, “staying alive has depended on navigation: the art of figuring out our position and in
Ready to move beyond weekend boating, a New England couple discovers a cruiser designed to keep them on the water longer.
This Cornwall-built cruiser pairs classic lines with all-weather capability.
New technology makes it easier than ever to work (and homeschool) from on board.
Are you strong enough to survive 13 hours in the water? That’s exactly what the writer did when he chaperoned an ocean survival course.
This Maine-based school was founded to help people find peace and purpose through boatbuilding.
Two former sailors from the Mid-Atlantic buy and restore a classic Bertram 20 Moppie runabout
The proud “Monksters” have built a devoted boating community.
The proposed rule would limit most vessels 65 feet and larger to 10 knots along the East Coast during certain times of the year.
What the latest Coast Guard statistics reveal about recreational boating safety.
Presented by the U.S. Coast Guard.
