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Sensational St. Martin
Officially, there are two sides to St. Martin/St. Maarten – French and Dutch – but in reality there are so many more facets to explore. There’s plenty to do whatever your interests, day or night. We visited as a family in December 2011 with two...
Take Care of Your Sails and They’ll Take Care of You
Every year, I invariably have the same discussion with a few customers about the value of ...
Easy Upgrades for Safer Shorthanded Sailing
As regular readers of my monthly column will know, the vast majority of yacht sailing is d...
The Moosehead Luncheon
On Sunday, November 3, members of race committees from around Long Island Sound convened a...
Caribbean Basin Bulletin - An Update from Grenada to Panama to Belize
Since 2007, Chewink has been in the Caribbean slowly circling the basin. She has been left...Alpha 42 on Track for a Spring Launch
This Cat Combines Looks and Performance with Comfort and Ease of Handling . Construction of the first Alpha 42 is underway at Alpha Yachts in Patchogue, NY. This high perfor...
Blue Jacket Yachts
The Blue Jacket 40 is the first brand new American-built performance cruiser – from the keel up – to hit the market in over 30 years. This modern interpretation of a ...
Beneteau Sense 46
Live the Magic of the Sea
The Beneteau Sense 46 follows in the footsteps of the original Sense 50. An intelligently designed, comfortable boat, providing functionality sec...
Sensational St. Martin
Officially, there are two sides to St. Martin/St. Maarten – French and Dutch – but in reality there are so many more facets to explore. There’s plenty to do whateve...
Take Care of Your Sails and They’ll Take Care of You
Every year, I invariably have the same discussion with a few customers about the value of sail maintenance. Every year my answer is the same: “You can’t afford not to...
A Sail Care Checklist
Remove ‘em
– The first step to ensuring that your sails are ready to be washed, dried, folded and stowed for the winter is the remove them (all of them) from your boat...
Patin & Ryan Win JY15 North American
Paul-Jon Patin and crew Felicity Ryan won the 2013 JY15 North American Championship, which was hosted by the Stamford Yacht Club in Stamford, CT over the weekend of Octob...
Dinghy Shop Fall Series: 16 Years and Going Strong
Fifty-nine junior sailors hailing from as far away as Maryland and Massachusetts competed in the Dinghy Shop Fall Series, the nation’s largest consecutive junior sailin...
The Moosehead Luncheon
On Sunday, November 3, members of race committees from around Long Island Sound convened at Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay, NY for the 72nd meeting of the...
Letters - December 2013
Charting a New Course: A Response to NOAA Discontinuing Lithograph Charts
A lot is being written about the “crisis” over NOAA ceasing lithograph nautical chart product...
Checking In... - December 2013
New Captain for the Morgan
Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT has named Richard “Kip” Files of Rockland, ME as the new captain of the 19th Century whaleship Charles W. Morga...Checking In... - November 2013
Mystic Seaport Steps the First Mast of the
Charles W. Morgan
The 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan took an important step on her journey back to sea on Thursday, October 17,...
Bequia Youth Sailors Ready to Compete in the USA …and they need your help!
A group of enthusiastic young sailors on the tiny Caribbean island of Bequia are anxious to test their skills in regattas in the United States, but significant financial ...
AYC Junior Big Boat Team Conquers the Buzzards
In perhaps the most stunning victory in the 79-year history of Stamford Yacht Club’s Vineyard Race, eight members of the American Yacht Club Junior Big Boat Team accomp...
JSA Junior Race Week
For the tenth time, Cedar Point Yacht Club in Westport, CT hosted the Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound (JSA) Junior Race Week for Lasers, Laser Radials and...
Book Review - Taking the Helm - One of America’s Top Sailors Tells Her Story
By Dawn Riley with Cynthia GossPublished by DR Ventures
289 pages
$17.95 (paperback) $6.99 (e-book)
Book Review - Saling a Serious Ocean
Anyone contemplating their first offshore passage, particularly with a small crew, should buy and study this latest book by renowned sailor and nautical writer John Krets...
WoodSailsDreams
The popularity of fiberglass boats that began in the middle of the last century brought wooden boats – and the art of building them – to the brink of extinction. Kept...
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On the cover: Rick Bannerot shot this dramatic photo of Paul-Jon Patin and crew Felicity Ryan on their way to victory in the 2013 JY15 North American Championship. The regatta was hosted by Stamford Yacht Club on the last weekend in October, and we have a report on page 54.
