Cost-effective sailing vacations; let us count the ways . . . Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Sailing and sailboats (and perhaps life in general) are all about compromises. Sometimes it would be nice to sail...
Do your homework before you put your boat in charter Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 The pull to own a sailboat can be understandably strong. So when the temptation looms to save expenses by putting it in ch...
One sailing family’s answer to the dinghy problem Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Cursing while sailing among the Apostle Islands never seems wise, not with a couple hundred feet of melted glacier beneath ou...
Simple ebb and flow results from highly complicated physics Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Poets and ancient cultures have long compared life itself with the tides. Historically, a flood tide has been consi...
A determined sojourner ends a long search for the right boat Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 It was the way the sails seemed more like wings than cloth that held me transfixed that summer morning as I stood ...
Sailing’s also sweating, swearing, swatting, and plain hard work Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 New dock neighbors have moved in next door. We share a finger pier, which means we’ll be seeing a lot of each ...
Simple piloting suits the style of a 40-year-old woodie and her captain Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 We travel in a maze of convoluted shorelines, narrow passages invisible until we are right next to them,...
Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 There are idyllic days when sailing. Many of them. We all recognize this fact, or we wouldn’t be out there with all that canvas in the wind. Those are gorgeous days when nature...
Dolphins, a boat, and a pretty woman make the heart beat faster Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 “They are curious creatures,” I try to explain. “It’s not just the boat that will bring them. They need more tha...
Give in and go with it when you’re chosen by a boat Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 It seems like every important event in my life starts with a phone call: jobs, births, deaths, want ads. This time it was lo...
Wearing a life jacket is sensible — but nobody said it was easy Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 “Is my life worth $359?” I blurted out as I returned to the safety of the cockpit after putting an extra crank o...
Not exactly perfect, it’s still life at its best Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 There are few human endeavors more rewarding than cruising under sail. The thrill of a fast reach across the trades, the peace ...
Rewards on the ocean deep are earned in shallows alongshore Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 Days of nepenthe on the blue seas do not come easily. The spiritual gifts of the great oceans are made possible by t...
This is something you don’t see on the Great Prairie Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 We were working our way back home from a wonderful excursion down the middle of the country. We had traveled from near the ...
No string, no knots — but is that good? Issue 35 : Mar/Apr 2004 It happened within my lifetime, but I hardly noticed. I surely wasn’t aware of the significance of the trend. In my grandmother’s time, ...
A hangover with a dangerous potential Issue 35 : Mar/Apr 2004 On a sunny Tuesday morning last summer I awake in a our aft berth with a headache for the second time in as many days. Monday’s head...
An exhausted crewmember hears sweet voices at night Issue 35 : Mar/Apr 2004 Brave Ulysses headed due east under power with sails furled. It was one of those nights when only the occasional reflection ...
Several had never raced before. Many raced only occasionally. And all had a great time. Issue 34: Jan/Feb 2004 JUDGING BY THE ELATION OF A COUPLE OF hundred Annapolis sailors, racing is a stimulating,...
It was just Rebecca and the sailboat — then sudden unconditional love Issue 35 : Mar/Apr 2004 “For sale” read the faded handwritten sign on her pulpit. Looking forlorn and out of place, she was huddle...
Away from the hurly-burly, drifting in contentment Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 I KNOW A MAGIC PLACE. A PLACE WHERE there are no 10-mile-long traffic jams, no honking horns, no howling disk jockeys or lyin...
Lake Huron or bust Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE DISPOSED TO DO DIFFERENT THINGS. When I met my editor and wife, I was happily sailing around triangular race courses on a large lake in ...
Living in a work zone tests patience Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 WELL, WE’RE AT IT AGAIN: beefing up our hard-working 1950s racer in the hope she’ll sail onward for another hundred years. The job this tim...
A gentle giant teaches the patience a good skipper needs Issue 36 : May/Jun 2004 I bought my first sailboat more than 20 years ago, not knowing how little I really knew about sailing, let alone what s...
Pre-1975 entries almost double for 2005 Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 SEQUELS AREN’T AS good as originals, so the theory goes. But, this year’s Classics Race sponsored by Good Old Boat — part of the Swiftsu...
Never mind the birds, the winter cover’s off the boat Issue 36 : May/Jun 2004 Chickadees in Minnesota are substituting their nervous chick-a-dee-dee-dee twitter for a heartfelt phoebee-phoebee song. T...
A newcomer takes to sailing like a duck to water Issue 36 : May/Jun 2004 This is Willi’s first time at the tiller. Her sharp brown eyes stare past the tanbark sails at the cumulus clouds buildin...
Male boaters rush to hush the noise of the boatyard cash register Issue 36 : May/Jun 2004 In the Puget Sound region it is staying light longer, coats are giving way to jackets, and tattered tarps are ...
A boat comes alive only at the interface of sea and sky Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Few creatures inhabit both sea and sky. A sailboat is a creature of mass, displacing tons of water, yet sensitive to the...
Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 I’ve singlehanded for a couple of weeks at a time, and I’ve cruised with an all-male crew as well. Both are OK, but not my preference. Joshua Slocum and other singlehande...
Living with an old motorsailer calls for patience and special skills Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Motorsailers are a vanishing breed. Every year one or more manufacturers drops from the field. If not in ac...
