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Ferry it from shore to ship without lifting a drop When you’re on the hook, you fill your dinghy with four basic commodities in addition to passengers: trash, diesel, gas, and water. Water is the heav...
Full Disclosure: I learned about this book when Mr. Geudtner hired my wife to proofread the manuscript (tip to aspiring writers: marry an English major). The sailing questions and occasional chortles ...
What an exceptionally fine book! Looking for cruising advice and adventure? This book is for you. Want pointers on preparing your boat for going offshore? This book is for you. Planning to cross the P...
Just when you thought there was nothing new under the sun when it comes to publishing Joshua Slocum’s classic book, Sailing Alone Around the World, you’re about to be proved wrong. There are book edit...
Subtitled “How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever,” this is a great primer for would-be seafarers, and a fun discourse on the vagabond life. Rick and Jasna have been liveaboards for ju...
In the summer of 1998, Christopher Madsen came across Rowdy, a 59-foot Nathanael Herreshoff-designed sloop, in an Oxnard, California, boatyard. He bought her for $5,000, and thus began what would beco...
The best thing parents can do for their children these days is to unplug them from society and give them a wider and deeper perspective of the world and more meaningful ways to experience life as they...
“Being on a boat seemed to be able to offer everything that a life stuck behind a desk could not: excitement, freedom, fresh air, movement, being outdoors, using my body as well as challenging my mind...
For every great tale, there is a backstory, an explanation of events that led up to the tale, hidden from view and forgotten over time. Curiously, most nautical tales are based in some fashion on the ...
When I first glanced at the title of this book, I wondered why anyone would publish yet another volume about boat improvements, but as soon as I cracked the cover of this book I found projects that I ...
Perhaps we all hold the interface between land and sea as a special place. I certainly do. Photographer Michael Kahn clearly does as well. Michael has just released a coffee table book with scenes tak...
Duncan Wells opens his book with the friendly advice (or warning) that all sailors should be prepared for the inevitable moment when, despite their best-laid plans, they will be called upon to sail si...
Nick Catalano’s book, Tales of a Hamptons Sailor, starts off with six short stories recounting what being a sailor in the Hamptons in the 1980s was all about. From the crazy locals and early morning d...
Destiny is no ordinary sailing book. Indeed, it is part sci-fi/part adventure, with sailing strewn into the mix, while catastrophic events unfold in a race against time. Carl Howe Hansen foreshadows h...
For those readers who have followed Fatty for many years, you won’t be disappointed. For the newcomers to his watery wisdom, prepare yourself for a genuine original. The antithesis of polished, ...
This is further technical information about purchasing, installing, and powering AIS devices from the article in the July 2015 issue. Entr’acte’s navigation system consists of two identical chart plot...
If the name Starling Burgess is known today it’s most likely as a collaborator with Olin Stephens in the design of the magnificent J-class Ranger, winner of the 1937 America’s Cup. The popular scenari...
More than 10 years ago Dan Spurr wrote the definitive first book for those thinking about becoming sailors. It had perhaps the best sales of all his books . . . and Dan has written many. It’s no surpr...
One of my favorite cautionary sea stories comes from Marlin Bree’s Wake of the Green Storm. Author of five nonfiction books about sailing, Dead on the Wind is his first novel, a thriller set in ...
Conrad Cooper says, “You always hear people say ‘The journey is half the fun.’ I always thought that percentage was rather low.” Cooper definitely makes the journey through Own Less & Live More fu...
Sailors dream of that once-in-a-lifetime voyage where they quickly complete what is often a difficult passage and then spend months lingering in exotic islands and harbors. Christine (first mate, wife...
“I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships ...
by SANDRA CLAYTON (SANDRA CLAYTON, 2014; 244 PAGES, $13.95PAPERBACK, $4.99 DIGITAL) REVIEW BY SUSAN LYNN KINGSBURY Number four in Sandra Clayton’s Voyageur Series, Osprey Summer reads like a log...
Jack Tar and the Baboon Watch is quirky, informative and fun — a great reference for those who love the water and those who stay ashore. Subtitled A Guide to Curious Nautical Knowledge for Landlubbers...
When a sailboat suffers a heart attack Pictured above, a mixing elbow connects to the exhaust manifold on the engine. Since it’s impossible to see inside it, the only way to inspect for blockages is t...
A homemade replacement is the answer My good old boat was a former racer and came with a KVH Sailcomp electronic compass and sailing instrument. As it was quite old, the LCD display had become barely ...
Edmund A. “Ed” Cutts was an exceptionally single-minded individual. As a very young child, he watched boats off Long Island. He took his first boat ride when he was 8½ years old. When he w...
“Seventy percent of the earth’s surface is water; there’s no better way to see it than on a boat.” Marcie Connelly-Lynn. Marcie and David Lynn embarked upon a new life in 2000 ...
In this age of College Sports = Football = Big Business, it is hard to believe that crew — races between boats with two, four, or eight rowers—was one of the most popular collegiate sports in the 1930...
The place of humans in the world of nature is essential to David Barrie’s wonderfully descriptive story of the sextant. I always have been fascinated by the interdependent relationship of people and n...
