Sailing Vessel Precipice

My wife told me about a friend of hers who is teaching people how to ride the bus. I thought to myself, "How silly, how hard can it be...

One thing i know for sure, it's cold. And wow Christmas is coming fast. Another thing i know for sure is that on-line shopping is the be...

Ok, some members of my sailing team have reminded me that the first time we went sailing was actually a week before the November 17 freeze. ...

I will always remember the date November 17. It was the day that our family sailed together on our own boat for the first time. We froze. ...

Went out to our sailboat to check on it while the wind gusted to 45 knots. It was an amazing cacophony of sound to hear the wind rushing th...

Many vessels are found, often years later, floating after being abandoned with liferaft and crew missing. I am not saying that not carrying ...

I had huge buck teeth. I spent many many hours at the orthodontist office enraptured, mouth open, looking at some of the most beautiful thin...

What weighs 20,000 tons, is 1000 feet long, travels at 20 Knots and sneaks up on you? Freighters. You wouldn't think something that look...

There are thousands of different makers of sailing vessels. All of them were built with a different purpose in mind. This makes for mind bog...

I spent the last four days in Daytona Beach, Florida on a business trip. This is a dangerous place for a sailboat person. I just wanted to t...

I can't take it anymore. Three days ago my life was sucked from the water and placed on a hard cold steel platform. The platform doesn...

All I really want is to pull in the same direction with a team of people who trust each other. This is what I desire at work. This is what I...

Usually when you meet a person for the first time you are meeting them in an surroundings that they are used to being in. A party, for insta...

The rules of Sailing are as follows: You have too much wind, to little wind, or it is from the wrong direction. If you are going to like sai...

He was late because the tow truck took a long time to come and change his tire. Not because the spare or the jack was missing, not because t...

I was just checking out s/v Vagabond's website ( www.vagabond.fr ) I have seen hundreds of sites devoted to cruising in the Bahamas. The...

I have no clue. There is so much I have to learn about sailing. The other night I tried my hand at using a gnomonic chart and although I und...

I used to work at a meat processing plant in high school. It was awful work all done at 32 degrees F. I would get soaked to the skin, underw...