Opinion

I learned to sail on the Maine coast as a boy, and one of the things my elders taught me was to respect fishing gear.

If you have a paranoid personality, anchoring out can be a validating experience. On the one hand, it seems rather simple. You amble up to

Whither the mast-mounted halyard winch? Just as all roads once led to Rome, many sailors now believe that all working lines should lead to the

On my living room wall, I have a print by Canadian maritime artist John Stobart that I inherited from my father. Stobart specializes in the

One of the first stories I ever edited for publication in a boat magazine, way back in 1986, was about the dangers and general inconvenience

Is it a virtue to emerge safely from messes you should have avoided in the first place? Last summer’s sail to Bermuda from Maine gave

When my wife, Mia, and I first crossed the Atlantic on our Allied Seawind 36, Arcturus, in 2011, we used the same handheld GPS that

It had been calm when I went to sleep, a calm that was supposed to have lasted into the next day. But by 0300 it

This almost happened to me once. I was sailing singlehanded between Bermuda and St. Martin one fall, and one night happened to be on deck