CIGAR SMUGGLER: Is a Catalina 470 Worth 33 Boxes of Stogies?
Posted on May 22nd 2013 - Charles Doane
That's the question cruiser Jeff Southworth has no doubt been asking himself ever since January, when local police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents ...
HAUNTED SAILBOAT: Up For Auction
Posted on May 20th 2013 - Charles Doane
I remember when I lived in New York City there were some people who used to read the obits every day, looking for what might ...
SWAN 48 DELIVERY: Wrong Way To The W’Indies
Posted on May 19th 2013 - Charles Doane
Editor's Note: Those studying my recent account of Lunacy's passage from Puerto Rico to Bermuda may have noticed that we did NOT find that abandoned Swan ...
MODERN SAILBOAT DESIGN: Quantifying Stability
Posted on May 16th 2013 - Charles Doane
We have previously discussed both
form stability and
ballast stability as concepts, ...
NORTHBOUND LUNACY: Sailing From Puerto Rico to Bermuda
Posted on May 14th 2013 - Charles Doane
This was a fast passage with very little motoring. My mate Mr. Lassen and I covered the 830 some miles between Fajardo and St. Georges ...
DEATH BY SAILING: Andrew Simpson and Luke Stimson
Posted on May 10th 2013 - Charles Doane
I was planning next to bore you with some details of Lunacy's recent passage from Puerto Rico to Bermuda, but the breaking news is far ...
ROLL-UP INFLATABLE DINGHIES: Better Than RIBs
Posted on May 7th 2013 - Charles Doane
ATTENTION EARTH PEOPLE! As I write this I am approaching Bermuda, blasting along but 70 miles out on what seems a perpetual close reach, due ...
AMERICA’S CUP CONUNDRUM: Need We Worship Larry Ellison?
Posted on April 30th 2013 - Charles Doane
Another America's Cup summer looms on the horizon, raising again that perennial insuperable question that so tortures racing sailors: how the heck do we get ...
Judgement
Posted on April 29th 2013 - Kimball Livingston
Does God think that because it rains in torrents I am not to go to Peru And destroy the world? Doesn’t relate, quite, but it’s ...