Zephyr (sail)

As anyone who has read this blog regularly may have guessed...I am going to table it for the moment as I turn my focus to other writing proj...

Recently came across the below tribute...I never knew Mitch but of course, like many life-long sailors from the Northeast U.S. (and beyond) ...

Rolex International Women's Keelboat Champs - Nov, 14-17, 2007 Shoreacres, Texas (Photo credit: Rolex/Dan Nerney)

I'm honored to have been included in a roundup of six favorite "yacht blogs" by the writers and editors of The Helium Report ....

As the winter season comes on it's time to think of alternatives to sitting by the fire thumbing old copies of SAIL Magazine (or surfing...

I know that there are a few die-hard "frostbiters" out there but most of us along the Northeastern U.S. seaboard have turned to ou...

Some great feedback on the " Yacht Monkeys " post (just two back) - now that the writers are on strike maybe there is an opening f...

Rolex TP 52 Global Championship - September 21-29, 2007 Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy (Photo credit Carlo Borlenghi)

It's been a busy month what with the trip to Spain and work-related projects coming on big time. Not as much opportunity for sailing or...

I've wondered at the dearth of sailing-oriented plot lines on the telly. Not that I watch all that much TV one way or another but it...

Hyères Trophy - September 10-15, 2007 Hyères, France (P hoto credit: ThMartinez/Medcup)

We realized during our trip to Spain just how myopic and "blanketed" the generic U.S. media are - reflecting, no doubt, their read...

Our trip to Spain - while not as sailing oriented as Tillerman's - was significant in so much as it was the first time we'd been awa...

"Got no place to go But there's a girl waiting for me down in Mexico She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin And if I bring a ...

In a modern day twist on the "Prince and the Pauper" the Marin Independent Journal ran a story recently on ..."t he gold col...

We all know that marinas are where the action is...the flotsam and jetsam of the boating life mingling with shore side nonsense - and if fol...

Sea-Fever I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the whe...