‘Son, if you go out in that ocean, you’re going to die’
August 28, 2013
Two months after a 36-foot 1970s-vintage sailboat was abandoned 550 miles off South Carolina, the ketch wound up on a beach on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
Two months after a 36-foot 1970s-vintage sailboat was abandoned 550 miles off South Carolina, the ketch wound up on a beach on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
In the summer of 1983, as a young journalist at the Newport (R.I.) Daily News, I was assigned to cover the America’s Cup races. I
Lately I seem to be using the words hybrid, crossover and multiuse to describe a growing number of outboard boats that excel for fishing and
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Illustration by Jim Ewing No sailing ship excites the imagination the way a Grand Banks fishing schooner does. Brave fishermen, fearless skippers, weather-beaten dorymen long-lining
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The storied 50-foot schooner Niña, once considered one of America’s greatest ocean yachts, disappeared on the brutal Tasman Sea The 85-year-old staysail schooner Niña, a
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Mario Vittone’s excellent adventure from Maine to Washington on an FPB 64.
John Pierce Rousmaniere, sailor, historian, advocate for safety at sea and 2020 National Sailing Hall of Fame inductee, whose books became essential reading for generations
Don’t miss these new models arriving at boat shows this season.
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