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2009 Block Island Race Week - Thursday
The promise of at least a little breeze on the penultimate day of Block Island Race Week XXIII Presented by Rolex curtailed the Whiffle ball and bocce games that had been underway on the lawn of the Narranganse...
Ups and Downs
2009 Block Island Race Week - Wednesday
Watching John Cooper’s Mills 43 Cool Breeze (Spri...
Cool Breeze, Hot Action
2009 Block Island Race Week - Tuesday
The calendar indicates that another solstice has co...
Once Around, With Gusto
2009 Block Island Race Week - Monday
The sand sharks that inhabit the normally peaceful wat...
Destination Jamestown
When sailors in the Northeast hear the call, “Go east, young man,” their first thought...Newport Gore-tex Sport Boot from Dubarry
New lightweight high performance sailing boot from Dubarry. the Newport is a fully Gore-tex lined, highly breathable boot with Dubarry's famous Dry fast-Dry soft leather...
KVH’s TracVision M1 - Big Fun in a Small Package
KVH’s new, ultra-compact TracVision M1 allows you to enjoy hundreds of channels of high-quality satellite TV programming from DIRECTV while at the dock or sailing or cr...
Raymarine SmartPilot X-Series Autopilots
Raymarine’s SmartPilot X-Series delivers razor sharp course keeping and superior power efficiency. Designed to perform intuitively for a full range of recreational vess...
Stocking the Offshore Galley
John Hanna, designer of perhaps the most famous ocean-voyaging sailboat of all time, the Tahiti Ketch, once remarked, “Indigestion has wrecked more cruises than reefs a...
Maine Marine Trades
Welcome to Maine ...
…where we’ve been building boats for over 400 years! That’s no exaggeration – the first boat built in America (by Europeans) was built in Maine...
Saving Your Sole
Restore and Refinish Your Teak & Holly Cabin Sole
I’ve had a number of customers ask me for quotes to replace their cabin sole with the assumption that the existing boar...
Whither the Cup?
Now that the smoke has cleared from the latest of the seemingly interminable courtroom battles that have thus far defined the event, it appears that the 33rd America’s ...
Local Sailors Take On the Tybee
The 2009 Tybee 500 is in the history books. Twenty-four teams competed in this long distance beach catamaran race, which was sailed in Nacra 20 One-Designs and Formula 18...
Hobie Wildcat Ready to Pounce on U.S. Market
Hobie Cat USA has announced that the Hobie Wildcat will soon be available in the United States. The Wildcat, which conforms to the International and North American Formul...
Milford, CT to Host U.S. Naval Academy Sailing Squadron
The U. S. Naval Academy (USNA) Offshore Sail Training Squadron (OSTS) will visit Milford, CT over the July 4weekend. After a 300-nautical mile sail from Annapolis, MD, fo...
Jamestown Distributors Opens Newport Store
Jamestown Distributors, a marine supply company based in Bristol, RI, has opened a new retail store in the recently restored 1831 Aquidneck Mill building, located at the ...Jay Kiley Joins GMT Composities
Jay Kiley has joined GMT Composites of Bristol, RI as Director of Sales and Marketing. Kiley comes to GMT after seven years selling superyacht rigging to vessels 24-meter...
2009 Riva del Garda Optimist Meeting
I went to Riva Del Garda, Italy for the Lake Garda Optimist Meeting in April. We practiced for three days before the four-day-long championship. The three practice days w...
2009 South American Optimist Championships
I went to Salinas, Ecuador in April to compete in the 2009 South American Optimist Championships, and was excited from the moment I found out I’d be spending ten days s...
Local Opti Sailors Compete Internationally
Magic Marine International Optimist Easter Regatta
Life as an Opti sailor is great when you’re lucky enough to be on an international team. It’s the perfect opportunit...
Into the Light
A Family’s Epic Journey
Audiobook narrated by Jaja Martin for Good Old Boat magazine
14.2 hours - $25
We thoroughly enjoyed the latest audiobook sent by our friends at Goo...
The Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod
The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History
By Theresa Mitchell Barbo with Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.) Published by the History Press 128 pages paper...
Steve and Doris Colgate Release Fast Track to Sailing
Steve and Doris Colgate, owner/operators of Offshore Sailing School, have released their newest book. Fast Track to Sailing – Learn to Sail in Three Days was developed to...
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On the cover: Jammy Beggar, a Melges 32, owned by Tom Lee from Duck Island Yacht Club in Essex, CT sailing in the Double- Handed Division at the start of the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race off Stamford, CT. © Rick Bannerot, Stamford, CT
