Jim Papa, Author at Good Old Boat

Book Review: Ahab’s Rolling Sea

It’s amazing to think that no scholars atop the masthead of Melville studies had thought until now...

Pirate is an NYU professor’s telling of his adventures aboard Pirate, a 1974 Swan 38 he purchased...

Archipelago New York is an extended photo essay chronicling documentary filmmaker Thomas...

This is the latest of James Baldwin’s books chronicling his life and travels aboard Atom, his...

There is, perhaps, no more ephemeral and monstrous a phenomenon than a rogue wave. A ship that...

In the wake of his brother’s recent death, George Michelsen Foy becomes interested in the fate of...

Sailing Toward Sunrise chronicles the journey of Bob and Karen Jones, recently retired, as they...