Schooner Wanderer’s sad history
In the history of American sailing ships, there are few vessels that can compare with the disreputable story of the schooner Wanderer.…
Yankee sails on
The Johnsons — Irving and Exy — weren’t your average American married couple. The Johnsons completed seven circumnavigations beginning in the 1930s, all aboard boats named Yankee, with…
The oral surgeon’s masterpiece
The 16-millimeter projector whirs, displaying a flickering, scratchy movie from 1957. It’s a gathering of suburbanites in a backyard, nothing…
Cult of Celestial Navigation
There was a time not too long ago when I was a head magician of the local branch of the cult of celestial navigation; a…
C-MAP Launches New High-Resolution Range of Chart Cards
Egersund, Norway – C-MAP®, a leader in digital marine cartography and cloud-based mapping, announced today the launch of new high-detail…
A most impressive sextant
If you were stranded on a small atoll and needed a sextant for your rescue voyage, you’d have no choice but to make…
Gear thoughts after an offshore passage
Recently, I completed an offshore trip that included periods of heavy weather. We were aboard Nostos, a 2001 Sabre 402, departed from Jamestown, RI on…
The Manila Galleons
When the Spanish empire expanded in the mid-1500s to include New Spain (Mexico) and as far west as the Philippine…
Coast Guard tests unmanned surface vessels off Hawaii
Someday soon, the USCG surface vessel that responds to your distress call might be an…
A digital sextant
Sextants are wonderfully analog optical devices. A sextant user from the 1850s would have little problem using a modern sextant. Now a company in South Korea has begun offering something it calls the Korea Digital Sextant (KDS) that digitalizes…
Terra Nova and Scott of the Antarctic
Best remembered as the ship that carried Robert Scott on his ill-fated voyage to the Antarctic in 1910, Terra Nova (new land) survived the…
