I THINK I WOULD BE CORRECT in saying that most amateur sailors, and certainly most Americans, believe it is their right to be rescued when...

A FRIEND WHO ASPIRES to become a writer, bless her misguided soul, asked me the other day how it was that I came to write a children’s novel...

WHERE I LIVE, it’s the season of spiders’ webs and cold, clammy fog.   The silky glistening strands whose presence is revealed by the cond...

This is the Italian container ship Ital Florida on a good day. This is the Ital Florida on a bad day. They call it a "stack a...

THERE IS SOMETHING about sailing that attracts people with problems.   Perhaps it is an escape —   the thought of gliding gracefully over ...

OF THE PEOPLE who find themselves at sea in a small ballasted monohull, few realize that their continued existence depends largely on the ou...

ALTHOUGH MODERN CRUISING YACHTS seem to be able to provide almost all of the luxuries of the modern home — right down to the toaster, the ...