April 3/2025: Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Through all of my career as a sailor and journalist, I have believed, wrongly it turns out, that Naomi James was the first woman to sail around the world singlehanded. I have a feeling I am not the only one. It is true...
This just blows my mind. Check out the difference in size between one of Christopher Columbus' ships and a Chinese treasure ship commanded by Zheng He many years prior to Columbus' famous voyage in 1492. It certainly makes you think about the ebb and flow of history. The Chinese, I am sure, are thinking about...
I never met George McKay, but I often saw his bizarre schooner-rigged galleon Raw Faith, first in Rockland, Maine, where she spent several years, and again last winter in Portland, during my own wanderings on the coast. Though I always admired the tenacity with which McKay pursued his dream, his ship always struck me as...
