Monday through Friday, each treatment passes like shimmering rollers across open water, indistinguishable, one wave in a sea of sameness…My body does not rebel nor does it rebound. I float in a windle...
Daniel Robb is a carpenter, actor, teacher, an expert on the Transcendentalists, a sailor, and shipwright. He is also a wonderfully skilled writer, all of which makes his book, Sloop, a great read. Da...
This is not a relaxing afternoon read, nor will you want to read it cover to cover. But you’ll find some chapters informative and you may end up more aware of your impact on the maritime environ...
Have you ever wanted to leave everything and just sail away? Not for fun or adventure but for life and survival? What if you had a sailboat ready to go, money, no ties, and the love of a beautiful you...
One man, one boat, lots of ice, and lots of chutzpah. Alone Against the Arctic is the tale of Anthony Dalton’s 1984 attempt to make a solo transit of the Northwest Passage in a small inflatable....
Not found on AMAZON  If you need an appointment book to organize your life, and who doesn’t, The Mariner’s Book of Days — 2009 is worth looking at. If you’re a maritime aficionado, a...
Isn’t it funny how good moods are so often the product of what we perceive internally when we accomplish simple objectives, not of what we actually see outside? Can this be true even when itR...
Step back in time to a day when sailboats were simpler and our own needs for cruising comfort were more in line with camping. Talented musicians Ed and Ellen Zacko met, dropped out of the New York sym...
In 1995, a small group of historians, writers, and National Park Service workers did two things: first, they founded the United States Life-Saving Service Heritage Association, a group dedicated to pr...
Sitting in the cockpit of a sailboat watching the changing skies can be both a peaceful pastime and a perplexing one. What’s causing that cloud formation? What does it mean? What triggered that ...
Definition of a Constant Waterman: Someone who delights in the greater portion of our Earth. A harmless monomaniac with habitually wet feet, Matthew Goldman. Matthew Goldman is the Constant Waterman. ...
It’s quite possible that no one else has had a life quite so rich with adventure and exploration as Lin and Larry Pardey. These are people who are absolutely comfortable wherever they may be, wh...
Lin and Larry Pardey describe Gillian Outerbridge’s photo-packed chronicle of her journey from New York through the waterways of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada as a heart...
 High Seas Schooner chronicles a three-week voyage from the Virgin Islands to Gloucester. With veteran crew and student navigators, the schooner Harvey Gamage brings maritime history to life. It is ed...
The Small Craft Advisor magazine has been called the “successor to The Small Boat Journal.” Â Editors Craig Wagner and Joshua Colvin, “minimalist” outdoor adventurers, missed re...
Mike Riley, his wife Karen, and their son, Falcon, stepped outside the mold and cruised the world. Mike has published several books while based anywhere and everywhere in the wild blue yonder. Two of ...
 Spirit Sail is about a special sailor’s vision, of seeing fundamental truths in much of what happens during his time afloat. The book’s premise is that, despite the contrast between the a...
John Karl provides the cleanest and most elegant introduction to the fundamental concepts of celestial navigation that I have read. I would even recommend this book to those who have a curiosity about...
 Six years ago, John Kretschmer and Sheridan House came out with a compilation of 40 used-boat reviews that John had written for Sailing magazine. That book, Used Boat Notebook, was (and continues to ...
As a solid fan of the “Age of Fighting Sail” stories of Patrick O’Brian, CS Forester, Alexander Kent and Julian Stockwin, I have read the names Pellew, Corbet, the Nereide, Indiamen,...
Extended worldwide ocean cruising is a dream of many sailors. Yet a very small percentage of sailors ever turn their dreams into reality. Lack of money, busy jobs, limited time, the inability to adequ...
Norman Fortier, born in 1922, was still a youngster when he became interested in photography. Drafted into the military during World War II, he became an aerial photographer and honed his photography ...
According to the back cover of Cruising Catamaran Communique, Charles E. Kanter has been a marine surveyor for over 36 years, and has been a liveaboard-cruiser for 15 of those years. So to say that he...
Author Mary McCollum lived the dream. She retired from her teaching career, sold her home and belongings and moved onboard her boat. And she sailed. Unlike many navigators who map out their route in g...
Some of the best waters for finding pacific sailfish are off the shores of Guatemala. Although this species is quite popular among sport fisherman, little is known about their feeding and group behavi...
Sharks have existed on Earth for 400 million years. In the past few decades, their numbers have been greatly reduced, and their continued existence as a species is desperately threatened. Graphic vide...
Good Old Boat writer, Bob Steadman, and his partner, Kay Nottbusch, want to share their cruising adventures with the rest of us…those sailors who are dreaming, but not yet experiencing, the crui...
It’s no news to serious readers of Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey series that their hero’s character is based on the real life naval career and exploits of the late 18th and ear...
by Ben Shadick (Heritage House, 2007; 28 pages; $16.95 Canada, $12.95 U.S.) Review by Karen Larson The night sky is full of starry friends. The trouble is that most city folk (even the sailors among u...
Richard Cutler is everybody’s hero. Women readers will love him. Men will respect his strong character and code of ethics. It’s almost a shame that he’s a figment of our imaginations...
