Small nuggets of fact often are below mountains of folklore. Getting to the nugget usually is impossible. So it is with most sea stories.
Adventures In Coastal Living – Free Trade and…
You probably have a friend who, if you met them today, you'd never befriend. They're lousy drunks, never help out, or have egos beyond description. Your friendship has that exclamation or wonderment factor: "why is this person, my friend?" On examinat
Sufficient unto the day is the evil…
The Maine Coast taught me a n entire new way of speaking
Train Dream
Not all dreams originate in our subconscious.
Psyche
This was not an ordinary boat that one could forget.
Illusion- a sea story in three acts
Most Blue Water sailors have at least one defining instant when they realize that their sense of control on the water is illusory.
A Seaman’s Primer
There were nine very important things, according to my farther, that every green sailor needs to know.
A Transom Eagle On The Constitution
Paint hides a multitude of sins is an old seaman's adage. It also hides all the details,
Gundecking
Gundecking is an ancient, but not too honorable nautical approach to record keeping.