Underway

As anyone who has experienced a period of boatlessness will tell you, being without one doesn’t mean you think about “yours” any less. It’s a

It’s hard not to love autumn, especially if you live in the Northeast. The fall air is crisply cool and tinged with the scent of

Doing what you love for a living is a great blessing, but it also has its dangers. This thought surfaces every boat show season, but

It’s been an odd summer. I had planned to spend a few months working from Matinicus Island, Maine, but fate intervened with other less-pleasant notions.

I flew to Providence, Rhode Island, last week, on my way to a meeting. It was a beautiful morning, and as we descended from cruising

What is it that makes a boat perfect? This time last year I was in the midst of surveys and final paperwork, keenly excited about

I can’t claim that Heck and Samba are naturally salty dogs. When I moved the three of us aboard a boat more than a decade

As you might imagine, the best part of my job involves looking at and thinking about boats. The frustrating part of my job is I

It’s April, the month I long for each year more than any other. The first crocuses, daffodils and forsythia are doing their annual interpretive dances

It was kind of early for a swim, but later that day I’d be on a plane back to the loathsome winter of the Northeast.