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Lunacy Assaulted by Schooner Harvey Gamage
Posted on July 15th 2010 - Charles Doane
  This could be one of those Twilight Zone triple-coincidence stories that once upon a time kept me up to my armpits in pulpy comic books. ...

RESCUE COMPENSATION: A Modest Proposal
Posted on July 13th 2010 - Charles Doane
  Should taxpayers have to spend large sums of money rescuing overzealous sailors who get into trouble they might easily have avoided? Should they pay to ...

MIKE HARKER Update: Should Have Had A Gun?
Posted on July 12th 2010 - Charles Doane
  Here's one interesting weirdness about this tragic Mike-Got-Mauled-On-His-Boat tale: initial reports, which basically came verbatim from the victim himself, had the location all wrong. First ...

ROCKWELL KENT: Voyages to Greenland and Tierra del Fuego
Posted on July 9th 2010 - Charles Doane
FROM AN EARLY AGE it was this image in particular, by artist Rockwell Kent, and a few others like it, that were pressed into my ...

Hunter Marine’s Mike Harker Beaten Senseless in St. Martin
Posted on July 7th 2010 - Charles Doane
  Some very ugly news from the W'Indies. Latitude 38 has just published a grim first-person account by bluewater cruiser Mike Harker, who was recently assaulted ...

DODGING POTS: The War Between Sailors and Lobstermen
Posted on July 6th 2010 - Charles Doane
Having spent a full day of my July 4 weekend moving Lunacy north from Portsmouth, NH, to her summer quarters in Portland, ME, I was ...

WITH THE FLOW: Escape From Bermuda
Posted on June 29th 2010 - Charles Doane
  You'll recall we left the good ship Lunacy pining on a mooring in Bermuda (with a perfectly good starter), waiting for me to welcome home ...

Pacific Seacraft 37: Crealock’s Creation
Posted on June 25th 2010 - Charles Doane
Originally dubbed the Crealock 37 after its designer, “Gentleman Bill” Crealock, this boat is now deemed a conservative cruiser, though when first conceived it was ...

JOSHUA SLOCUM: His Family Cruise Aboard Liberdade
Posted on June 23rd 2010 - Charles Doane
Before Joshua Slocum could become the man we remember today--the one who invented bluewater cruising by sailing around the world singlehanded in a rebuilt ...

TAYANA 37: Ubiquitous Bluewater Sailboat
Posted on June 21st 2010 - Charles Doane
The Tayana 37 is the most successful of the many Taiwan-built double-ended full-keel cruisers that were conceived in the mid-1970s in the wake of the ...