Full disclosure: Liz Clark is a friend. I followed her adventures in Latitude 38 magazine almost from the start, then had a good fortune to meet her in person in French Polynesia in 2015, as she was p...
This book is aimed squarely at wannabe first-time cruisers who are ready to take concrete steps to casting off for a voyage. The author is a relatively young cruiser who bought a 1973 Columbia 34 in n...
75th SWIFTSURE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST For 75 years in a row, thousands of Pacific Northwest sailors have participated in a yacht race that started as an overnight sail to round a lightship anchored ...
We’re not like the other sailing magazines, but I know you know this already. The point I want to make is that we’re not really of a place. At the Annapolis boat show last fall, introducin...
STAR BABY IN THE SUMMER OF LOVE “Old boats rule,” is how reader Peter Allen put it in his email to me about the story he sent me on the Great Pumpkin Pursuit Race on San Francisco Bay. According to pr...
SHOW US SOME KEEL Will your boat be included in a spread in our May 2018 issue? Send michael_r@goodoldboat.com a high-res photo of her bottom, your boat’s bottom. Let’s see her hanging in Travelift sl...
Rob Avery is back, with the second smart, nicely crafted crime story in the series narrated by our protagonist, Sim Greene. Following a life-altering roller coaster ride of murder and deception and a ...
I’m eager to tell you that the last book I read before picking up Still Water Bending was Lit: A Memoir by best-selling author Mary Karr. This is notable because the depth and poetic quality of Clarke...
DEPLOYED AND MISSING GOOD OLD BOAT? For nearly 20 years it’s been our policy to extend a free subscription (print or digital) to service members deployed abroad. But maybe we’ve not been so good at ge...
Ever wonder why all Good Old Boat book reviews are positive? It’s not because all the books we review are good. It’s not because our reviewers are kind to a fault. It’s because when a Good Old Boat bo...
This article is relating to an article in the January 2014 issue. 1957 International Marine building wooden boats based on Herreshoff 28-foot design. Okamoto Shipyard building 35- and 40-foot wooden k...