The Pirate’s Bastard: Book Review
Laura S. Wharton’s debut novel The Pirate’s Bastard, is set in colonial America in the first half...
Read More
Author: Wayne Gagnon
Book Review: Half Fast
A good writer doesn’t tell readers their story, they show readers their story. I know that Randy...
Read More
Book Review: A Simple Life
As the title suggests, protagonist Paul Williams lives a simple life. He’s a single dad...
Read More
The Accidental Captain: the Hilarious True-Life Adventures Of the Nerd Who Learned To Sail Across the Atlantic – Eventually
Glen Patron was born, as he says, “on the wrong side of the docks,” and grew up on Great Neck, on...
Read More
Run for the Devil
Run for the Devil centers around protagonist Simon Donovan, a sailor who ferries people and...
Read More
A Man For All Oceans; Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World
Sometime in the late 70s or early 80s I became obsessed with the idea of owning a sailboat after...
Read More
Sailing Into Retirement; 7 ways to retire on a boat at 50 with 10 steps that will keep you there until 80
When author Jim Trefethen wrote Sailing Into Retirement, he combined some information from his...
Read More
Singlehanded Sailing: Thoughts, Tips, Techniques & Tactics
I’ve been sailing Tortuga, my 1969 Westerly Centaur, since 2003, and about 75 percent of the time...
Read More
Buehler’s Backyard Boatbuilding For the 21st Century
I first got the bug to own a sailboat sometime in the late ’70s and for a while I toyed with the...
Read More
Bluewater Sailing on a Budget: How to Find and Buy a Cruising Sailboat Under $50,000
Let’s face it. “The rest of us” are on a budget and have to watch how much we...
Read More