Adventure Sailing this July!
Join us on a Swan 44 as we make our way down the east coast from Newfoundland to Annapolis, Maryland. 4 legs with stops in St John's, Lunenberg, and Newport RI.
Baltic 42 in the Erie Canal – Scraping By!
This spring I was fortunate to spend some time with Erin and Marie on their Baltic 42. We had a great sail from Rhode Island to New York city where I jumped-off and Erin and Marie carried on up the Erie canal to Lake Erie. One of the concerns was the 2m keel and...
Obeying The Buoys
No one possesses the literary skills to make the subject of buoyage interesting – no one. Buoys, their markings and light attributes are a dry subject and a necessary evil in maritime training schemes. Still, getting them wrong can have very real repercussions....
Water Levels in The Great Lakes
It’s been a fascinating season sailing on the Great Lakes, not least of all for the unusually high water levels experienced this year (2017). While most RYA students are familiar with the subtleties of tidal heights and secondary port calculations from their theory...
Keel Failure and the Deadly Inversion
A Bad Day at the Office The Old Salt Blog recently posted a slightly inflammatory but informative piece on keels falling off (here) which raises more questions than it answers.  Whether or not the few tragic incidents require an overhauling of design specs or...
