Charles Doane

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PLASTIKI RESCUED: Or Not
Posted on July 19th 2010 - Charles Doane
Some Australian news outlets reported yesterday that Plastiki, the unique 60-foot plastic catamaran constructed of 12,500 plastic bottles, had "come to grief" some 200 miles ...

SHARKTOPUS: A Lethal New Species
Posted on July 17th 2010 - Charles Doane
  Marine biologists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have announced the discovery of a bizarre and extremely dangerous species of man-eating shark. Designated formally as ...

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 ...