8. Bare it all
June 30, 2014
We had gotten under way early in the morning to see the tall ships that were visiting New London, Connecticut. Many of them were still
We had gotten under way early in the morning to see the tall ships that were visiting New London, Connecticut. Many of them were still
I have a friend who likes to research new places to go in his 26-foot single-diesel pilothouse boat by looking at harbors and measuring distances
I grew up with field guides for fish, shells, seabirds and the hundreds of other denizens of the shallows and the deep. As a boy,
I’ve been fortunate to spend a large part of my life living on islands that range from remote and minuscule to Manhattan. Many might say
Hard is the heart that can resist the sun glinting off varnished mahogany or the sparkling reflection of water in the glass above a deck
Share your passion with some landlubbers and introduce them to the joys of being on the water. It won’t require much effort, thanks to the
There’s nothing quite like watching a kid’s face when the rod tip really starts thumping, and he or she realizes they’ve hooked a real live
Like many of us, I spend more and more of my life tethered to a bevy of electronic devices — smartphone, laptop, desktop, tablet. Am
Among the many happy memories I have of enjoying my boat in the summer, watching fireworks rates right at the top. When I kept Bossanova
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After his wife had a stroke that made their 50-foot trawler unusable, a husband commissioned a handicapped-accessible power cat. They took delivery in May 2021, and for the rest of the summer, with family and friends, they explored the waters near their house.
