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ENERGY OBSERVER: A Sailboat Turned Hydrogen-Fueled Powerboat Turned Sailboat...
Here’s an unlikely tidbit from the Where Are They Now Department. The old maxi racing cat known variously since its 1983 launch as Formula TAG, Enza New Zealand, and Daedulus (among others) has more...
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SOURCING PARTS IN GAMBIA: From the Fixing Your Boat in Exotic Places Department
Jan. 30/2020: Anyone who has ever tried to fix anything on a boat knows full well that the hardest part normally isn’t the actual fixing itself, but the gathering of the tools and parts and other bits...
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MYSTERY BOAT ABANDONED: Pascha the Dog and Four Humans Evacuate to a Freighter
Jan. 22/20: I’m dying to learn more about this. Seems a commercial vessel, a “geared bulker” in merchant marine vernacular, name of M/V Sunda, stopped to rescue the crew of a certain sailboat, along...
View ArticleCRASH AND CAPSIZE: Team New Zealand Flips Their Foiling AC75
Dec. 20/2019: Someone had to do it first! And the Kiwis certainly seem pretty laid back about the whole business. This happened yesterday. Watch the viddy the team posted and you’ll see it was...
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IRON BARK FOR SALE: Award-Winning Wylo II Gaff Cutter Available in W’Indies
Dec. 2/2019: Accept no substitutes. This is the ultimate low-budget high-latitudes expedition yacht right here. Tried and tested! Believed to be the only boat anywhere to have spent unsupported...
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BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Sailing La Vagabonde and the Greta Thunberg...
Nov. 21/2019: Here’s a bit of synchronicity. I was only vaguely aware of the La Vagabonde YouTube phenomenon, then became much more interested after I saw how rabid their fans are at the Annapolis show...
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SOUTHBOUND LUNACY 2019: Coast-Hopping and Further Maintenance Adventures
Nov. 9/2019: During the early summer, you’ll recall, we dealt with two big maintenance items: Lunacy’s wobbly rudder and her “ovalized” autopilot/steering quadrant connection. Another adventure, not...
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2019 JULY 4 CRUISE: Rudder Repair, Family Lore, Another Flooded Engine
We sailed over to Popham Beach for the holiday, as has been our habit the last several years, to visit friends and family, but first there was the rudder to attend to. Or rather the steering system, as...
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REID STOWE: Art Inspired by His Voyaging on Display in Chelsea (Plus a Big...
Oct. 21/2019: I was in New York City last Thursday after test-sailing boats in Annapolis and stopped in to see this show. All I can say is: WOW! Reid was there to greet me, first time I’d seen him live...
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2019 ANNAPOLIS SAILBOAT SHOW: The Eagle Has Landed (And Got Its Feet Wet)
Oct. 12/2019: Just back from Phase One of my annual boat show dive in Nap Town. The most interesting new boat I saw there by far is the Eagle Class 53, a foiling (there’s that word again) all-carbon...
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FLYING OBJECTS: More Foiling AC75s and IMOCA 60s Too
Oct. 11/2019: Since visiting the America’s Cup 36 scene last month to glimpse the launching of the first new foiling monohull AC75, I’ve noticed three more AC75s have launched, and lo, they have gone...
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2019 SUMMER CRUISING: More Fooling Around on Lunacy
Sept. 24/2019: I haven’t kept you all up to date re my doings aboard Lunacy since the end of the Deth Cruz so I thought I’d share some glimpses of what’s been going on. A lot of it has been...
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RM 1270: Rich Wilson’s New Boat
Seen at Maine Yacht Services in Portland while fixing stuff on my boat: Vendée Globe two-timer Rich Wilson’s new ride from France. A step down from an Open 60 perhaps, but still a very interesting...
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AMERICA’S CUP 36: Kiwis Splash the First AC75
Right! We’re getting closer to the interesting part of the run-up to the next America’s Cup, the part where people actually start sailing the boats they will race on. Team New Zealand stole a small...
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DON STREET’S IOLAIRE: Lost On the Coast of Ibiza
I heard glimmerings of this on the interwebs and immediately contacted Don, who obliged with a detailed release and obituary, most of which I’m publishing below. I don’t want my headline to confuse...
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LOGAN SPEAKS: Doug’s New Book BoatSense
What a charming book this is! A slim volume, but with a surprising variety of material in it. There’s a good deal of standard-issue practical advice you might find in other marine how-to tomes, but...
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DETH CRUZ 2019: To Matinicus With Matinicus
First some deep background: the term “death cruise” was coined during the 1980s to describe a series of outings under sail enjoyed by the editorial staff of Offshore, a now defunct New England boating...
View ArticleDEAD GUY: Jeremy “Mac” McGeary
I’m just back from a cruise down the coast (of which more later) and during said cruise received the very sad news that yet another old sailing friend has passed on. I first met Mac when he was living...
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2019 JULY 4 CRUISE: Rudder Repair, Family Lore, Another Flooded Engine
We sailed over to Popham Beach for the holiday, as has been our habit the last several years, to visit friends and family, but first there was the rudder to attend to. Or rather the steering system, as...
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ROSIE G: A Scow-Bow Junk Named After a Dead Dog
This is the most interesting new cruising sailboat design I’ve seen in a long time. Currently in build at Berkeley Marine Center, as conceived by a notable client, Barry Spanier, and drawn by a notable...
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