Note: This story is excerpted from SAIL Contributing Editor Christopher Birch’s upcoming book The Four Seasons of Boat Maintenance— a compendium of lessons learned during his 40-year career maintaining other people’s boats as the founder...
Who among us hasn’t gotten back to the dock, zoomed waaaay in on a speck in the middle of a photo, and said, “well, you can’t tell from this picture, but the [marine life, boat, or celestial body] was amazing in person”? Marine photography...
Onne van der Wal has made a career out of shooting classic yachts.
This month Charles Scott writes about sailing Opbs—other people’s boats— and a host of voyages that he’s been on thanks to generous invites, offers to lend a helping hand, or the initiative to try something new (p.50). I am also a devout...
The youth team from New Bedford, Massachusetts’ Community Boating Center zips by the 152-foot schooner Shenandoah. The sun had yet to set on the first day of racing, and Crazy Horse had already put 90 miles behind her. It was a downwind sled...
