Experience: Misadventures in the Med
November 8, 2018
After crossing the Atlantic in 2011 and spending two leisurely years crossing the Med, I found a homeport for my Crealock 34, Panope, in Cyprus.
After crossing the Atlantic in 2011 and spending two leisurely years crossing the Med, I found a homeport for my Crealock 34, Panope, in Cyprus.
After a season of club racing, the Skipper (aka Kevin McHugh) and I were on the hunt for a faster boat—who isn’t? The Hudson at
Stumbling upon art while out sailing is an unexpected pleasure. Finding colorful glass balls that have washed across from Japanese fishing fleets is certainly magical.
New York native Ayme Sinclair didn’t grow up sailing but she’d always loved the water, so when a friend offered to take her out on
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
I know someone who spent two years, two months and two days staring at the water, living in a space 150ft square, and paying keen
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We had stopped to snorkel at Cayo Sal in Cuba, and I grabbed my mask and fins to check on the anchor. This weather-beaten, low-lying
