The fourth annual Melville Marathon held January 3 at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, proved, indeed, quite a long haul. The crowd, at first about 50 of us, assembled around noon for the complete run through of Melville's Moby Dick.…
The patch is back. Transderm Scop, those little dime-sized tabs that people suffering from motion sickness put behind their ears, has been released again after being unavailable for several years. The return of Transderm Scop is being welcomed by sailors…
The legendary yacht design firm of Sparkman & Stephens has announced plans to open a brokerage office in Newport, R.I., in a building owned by the International Yacht Restoration School. Sparkman & Stephens has many affinities with the school, which…
Many computer users are aware of the danger that the year 2000 poses for computer records, operating systems, and software applications that use a two-digit system for signifying date (i.e., DDMMYY). GPS, it seems, will experience a similar watershed event…
E. Annie Proulx no doubt set The Shipping News in Newfoundland -- a seafaring culture if there ever was one -- to accentuate the awkwardness of her landlubberly main character Quoyle. We've all felt the pain of learning our way…
A large volume of messages sent and received by the Titanicduring her short-lived maiden run were recently auctioned off at Christie's East in New York. Four lots of material relating to the Titanic sold for an astounding $178,500. This price…
Since the release of our annual Ocean Voyager issue, safety-conscious readers have been clamoring for an explanation of why we featured a cover image of a sailor standing on the deck of a yacht that evidently broke several safety rules.…
A 40-foot powerboat will depart Dana Point, Calif., in November,bound for Hawaii, in what will be the first leg of its voyage around the world. The vessel is a stock Nordhavn 40, designed and built by Pacific Asian Enterprises of…
With the upper echelons of single-handed racing dominated by generously funded, European professionals, the make-up of the tidy 13-boat fleet for the '02-'03 Around Alone race comes as a breath of fresh air. True, the overall winner will undoubtedly come…
File Does Not Exist A passing boat found the remains of Newport sailor Jamie Boeckel on June 10, 2002, just off Port Jefferson, N.Y., in Long Island Sound. He was found just one week after a memorial service was held…
