Capt. Marc, veteran of multiple ocean crossings, and instructional pro, invites you to join him for lessons and/or excursions under sail. By special arrangement only.
Here’s the answers I came up with for the Salty Words Quiz. Leave a comment if you want to elaborate or contest these explanations. Question 1 – Every sailing ship had to have cannon for protection. Cannon of the times required round iron cannonballs. The master wanted to store the cannonballs such that they... »
Seventy-Year-Old Sailor Rescued Off Santa Cruz Island Rescuers say a lone 70-year-old sailor lost all electricity on his 50-foot yacht near Santa Cruz Island and was airlifted to safety by a U.S. Coast Guard crew before his vessel ran aground and was destroyed. A Coast Guard official said that without electricity, the man could... »
It seemed to me that Brad, a big man with a correspondingly huge basso voice, was the ringleader. But it was Karen who was first to grab the wheel as soon as the boat got a bone in her teeth. None of them were really experienced sailors but, to my delight, there wasn't a... »
We landed in Saint George Harbor, Bermuda, in late May of 2002 after a boisterous and eventful five-day crossing from Norfolk, Virginia. There we met the crews of other eastbound sailing vessels, all closely monitoring daily weather forecasts. Every afternoon we gathered in a little waterside pub to talk about the 1800 miles of... »
