Book Review: A Simple Life
As the title suggests, protagonist Paul Williams lives a simple life. He’s a single dad...
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Book Review: The First Fleet
If you were to try and pick the day (yes, the very day) that the United States was founded, what...
Ready to Come About Book Review
Ready to Come About is both an inspiration and a cautionary tale. I met the author, Sue Williams,...
Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father Book Review
Sea Trial is two and a half stories in one, with each story perfectly complementing the other....
Denouncement in Design
A variety of factors contributed to the end of yacht design’s golden age. I recently finished reading Dick Carter’s autobiography, Dick Carter: Yacht Designer in the Golden Age of Offshore Racing. Beyond the story of...
Crealock 37/Pacific Seacraft 37 Boat Comparison
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, boats designated as “cruising yachts” tended to follow the Colin...
Crealock 37 / Pacific Seacraft 37
An inspired, tough, seakindly cruiser In the mid-1970s, naval architect William “Bill” Ion Belton...
Game of Sails: Book Review
I don’t read romance novels; this is the first romance novel I have ever read. But this book was...
Short-handed Sailing: Book Review
This book is a manual, a fundamentals textbook for managing a sailboat when crew is short or...
Gulfstar 39 Sailmaster Mk II Boat Comparison
…and Two More Bright, Solid Cruising Performers The late powerboat designer Tom Fexas once...
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