Book Review: Bargain Boats and Budget Cruising
The subtitle of this new book is enticing: “The fine art of selecting a great boat, outfitting it,...
Read More
Author: Daniel Spurr
Book Review: Voyaging with Marionette
Amongst the hundreds of sailors I’ve known, only one kept the same boat nearly his entire...
Read More
The Nonsuch 30 Man
Mark Ellis, the energetic designer of the Niagara 35, Nonsuch 30, and many other handsome...
Read More
The Hull-to-Deck Joint
There’s more than one way to fasten the two biggest boat parts It is the nature of boats that they...
Read More
Exposed: The Dark Side of the America’s Cup
When this A-Z history of the Auld Mug landed in my lap, my first thought was: “I am so over the...
Read More
Gone to the Sea: Selected Stories, Voyages and Profiles
Herb McCormick and I wrote our first books together, after hours, banging away at IBM Selectric...
Read MoreTed Hood: Book Review
When one hears Ted Hood’s name, the first connection is quite likely to Hood Sails, the loft he founded back in the 1960s and which remains a force in that industry, though Ted has had no connection to it for many years....
Read MoreMiss Inclined: Book Review
After 11 years cruising with her husband aboard their Bayfield 36, Canadian singer/songwriter Eileen Quinn is still having fun…or so one hopes, despite the litany of inconveniences and troubles cited in her folksy songs about...
Read MoreThe World’s Best Sailboats — Volume II
There’s no doubt about it: like sex, hyperbole sells. Magazines and books push it ’round the calendar: The best doctors in Dallas. The best chai in Berkeley. The best beaches in Rhode Island. Best mutual funds, best...
Read MoreMean Low Water: Book Review
Anybody remember the ’70s song, “The Mighty Quinn”? The artist was Manfred Mann. Quinn, of course, was an Eskimo, the polar opposite of sailing songwriter Eileen Quinn’s subject matter. Forgive me the...
Read MoreNow on Newsstands
