Dec. 12/2024: I’ve been remiss here. I got a copy of this book some time ago, handed me direct and personal from its author, Tim Murphy, autograph included. I read big chunks of it most immediately and learned: it’s a great book! But I was on my boat at the time, and the book got...
Aug 28/2024: It certainly isn’t every day that a 183-foot superyacht sinks in a matter of minutes, while at anchor, with 12 crew and 10 guests aboard. So it’s entirely understandable that the very abrupt sinking of Bayesian, an enormous Perini Navi sloop, at around 4am on August 19 off Porticello, Sicily, resulting in the...
Nov. 21/2022: This, of course, is what we have in mind when notions of taking the boat south for the winter are first born: a sun-splashed bow wave in which dolphins gambol like frivolous children. But it takes a while to get there. I am actually bad at making plans. I knew I wanted to...
Oct. 12/2021: Here we have another sad tale of mortality. On the last day of last month, as I understand it, the well-known yacht designer Ted Brewer passed away peacefully at his home in British Columbia. Born in 1933 in Hamilton, Ontario, he certainly had a good long run on this planet, both as a human...
DEFINITION: wave train (noun)–a succession of waves arising from the same source, having the same characteristics and propagating along the same path WARNING: This particular WaveTrain emanates from the brain of Charles J. Doane.Click here to contact Charles J. Doane. WHO THE HELL IS HE? Charlie has worked as a boating journalist since 1986, including stints...
