Eric and Charlotte Kaufman, who evacuated their boat Rebel Heart last month with their two young children, at last broke their media silence and have described some of what happened onboard to Ira Glass in a radio interview on This American Life. You can read the transcript or stream the broadcast here. The substantive facts...

I really really hope this turns out not to be true. You'll recall I published a rather long post last spring about Thomas Tangvald, son of the famous traditional-boat cruiser Peter Tangvald. Thomas, who lost his dad and half-sister Carmen on reef off Bonaire when he was just 15, had started publishing a series of...

Lunacy got launched and rigged at Maine Yacht Center on Monday. I was up there yesterday and managed to get all the sails on before the rain squalls started up. As you can see from the photo up top, I've scored some new canvas, courtesy of Richard Hallett: a replacement purple dodger, a new bright...

What do you do when a dead 81-foot blue whale washes up on your beach? Hold your nose and wait for it pop. So it goes in Trout River, Newfoundland, when the local population of 600 souls has been has been waiting on pins and needles for their whale to burst since it washed up...

Who says you need a modern go-fast boat with foils to make sailing really exciting? Check out these video clips of traditional Dutch barges, called skutsjes, which were originally used for hauling cargo in Friesland and are still actively raced today. What blows me away in the first one are the guys to leeward with...

I belive you use a sealant on to bottom of tre skeg to seal the 4 bolts holding the plate in place.

I belive this pump could lift the fuel of your kell tanck . The price is high a smal electricaql pump cust $50.00

I own a Tanton 39 Catketch early version of your the skert was added after the hull was build.

It turns out Google Books has all the old Life magazines available for viewing (as well as Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, etc.). The article from the magazine shown at the beginning of this post is at http://books.google.com/books?id=L1YEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24-IA3 Now, if we could just get the old issues Yachting and The Rudder available. That’d make some interesting...

I found your report on the sinking of the school-ship Concordia 500 miles off the coast of Brazil a sad demonstration of prejudice and xenofobia. The rescue of all the passengers of the ship by Brazilians, who indeed suffered no injuries, was praised profusely by Canadian authorities and diplomats, including the Canadian ambassador in Brazil....