One sailor’s way to make a movable bracket for a cabin lamp Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Shore power (or a good battery bank and electric lights) is convenient, but nothing beats the comfort of a cozy sail...
William Longyard’s introduction to A Speck on the Sea begins with the question, “Why would anyone cross an ocean in a small boat?” In the following 375 pages, he presents more than 1...
High Latitude, North Atlantic briefly chronicles the discovery, settlement, anthropology, and history of the barren lands from north of Alaska across the Canadian Arctic and the Atlantic to northern S...
Not every songwriter can pull off lyrics about Nigel Calder books, duct tape, and WD-40. Canadian singer-songwriter Eileen Quinn can and does, in her fourth CD, Not to be Used For Navigation. Her lyri...
A MUSIC CD BY HOOLIE (PIRATE WEASEL RECORDS; 2003; $15.00) REVIEWED BY MICHAEL HEWITT I don’t even know what some of Hoolie’s instruments are . . . bodrhan and bazouki, for instance, but a...