classic plastics

1 min read 2022-10-11 08:34:25

Can’t talk right now, doin’ yacht punk shit

‘Nuff said The Bay Stuck in the swamp

2 min read 2022-08-09 23:05:33

Take a look inside the magic that happens when community, career, passion, and a conscious approach to capitalism collide! Meet the literal

3 min read 2021-04-26 03:14:45

“Remember when I sailed through New York harbor?!” I say to my sister-in-law. I’ve just arrived at her and my brother’s house in my home

4 min read 2021-01-19 07:54:46

Where do you find the heart of sailing? Is it witnessing both a sunset and a sunrise at sea? Is it in a boatyard with no fresh water, skin itchy

3 min read 2020-09-12 06:59:52

COMRADES, On Labor Day weekend 2020 I hauled my boat for three days and three days only to paint the bottom, remove the old prop shaft and

2 min read 2020-02-05 23:46:48

A surveyor wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole (I know this because my friend’s a surveyor and said so), but that’s a legit home made

4 min read 2020-01-10 22:00:00

How to Sail a Canal They said we couldn’t do it, but damn it we did it. We sailed through the Great Dismal Swamp Canal. In light winds,

2 min read 2020-01-02 09:54:32

Happy New Year, dear readers! Many boat and writing projects abound, but I’m stuck in a windy anchorage on a hurricane devastated island. A

2 min read 2019-12-14 07:28:33

It’s 2 AM anchored near Posqoun flats where the York River and the Chesapeake Bay meet and I am most definitely seasick. The boat permeates a

2 min read 2019-10-16 08:47:52

Photo by Christina Boswell I just finished the worst bottom job I’ve ever done—because I don’t have the money or the time to scrape, grind, or

2 min read 2019-06-05 07:47:23

March 13, 2019 Ready or not. At some point you just have to say fuck it, and go sailing. I know this boat. I know all its weaknesses. I know what it

4 min read 2019-03-21 09:26:22

Blown in from the depths of the gale! A Portuguese Man-o-war. It’s blowing. Out of the north. Late for the season. Although, I guess…not anymore.

4 min read 2019-03-08 23:58:18

Post launch. This boat don’t do reverse. Or should I say, I don’t. That’s definitely my weakest part of boat handling but also, tiny prop aft

12 min read 2019-02-27 01:00:05

Things were falling apart, right in front of this very backdrop. As we motored up the Rio Dulce and into the most majestic, lush, tranquil canyon

6 min read 2019-02-26 01:00:34

El Relleno Marina in Rio Dulce, Guatemala. The pillow talk had come and gone by the time I’d arrived at the marina. The Capt. had apologized and