I WAS LOOKING THROUGH my favorite nautical encyclopedia the other day when I came across the word “thurrock.”   I can’t remember ever readin...

THE LIST OF CREATURES who want to share your little floating home with you is quite long. Offhand, I can think of a dozen birds, insects, a...

WHY DO BOATS always have to be compromises? That’s the question from a reader in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “Why can’t designers create boats...

I   SEE VERY LITTLE DISCUSSION in the yachting press about the seaworthiness of trailerable sailboats. But anyone who sails a small boat for...

SOMEONE WHO SIGNS himself or herself “Interested” wants to know what a sheet anchor is. “In several books I’ve read, a person who is steady...

AFTER E. F. KNIGHT wrote his classic Sailing in 1889 it was regarded for many years as the sailor’s bible. In Old Testament fashion, Knigh...

PART OF MY VACATION this year consisted of a different kind of boating. I floated down a tributary of the Colorado River in a rubber raft w...