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,...
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The subtitle of this new book is enticing: “The fine art of selecting a great boat, outfitting it,...
Read MoreAmongst the hundreds of sailors I’ve known, only one kept the same boat nearly his entire...
Read MoreMark Ellis, the energetic designer of the Niagara 35, Nonsuch 30, and many other handsome...
Read MoreThere’s more than one way to fasten the two biggest boat parts It is the nature of boats that they...
Read MoreWhen this A-Z history of the Auld Mug landed in my lap, my first thought was: “I am so over the...
Read MoreHerb McCormick and I wrote our first books together, after hours, banging away at IBM Selectric...
Read MoreWhen 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 MoreAfter 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 MoreThere’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 MoreAnybody 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...
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