Chicago Tug

A boat is a good place to inventory one’s life or at least, one’s stuff. Each year before traveling to Maine to board Carrie Rose we are obl...

  Everyone was out fishing yesterday morning. I was awakened at 5:30 AM by the wheezing and rumbling of a lobster boat’s engine. It was a sm...

Every cruising boat needs at least one other boat, a dinghy. But there is no reason not to carry other types. Carrie Rose has two and at tim...

  The cities on East Penobscot Bay have a living tradition of wooden schooners. Rockland, Rockport, Camden and Belfast each have at least on...

These last few days it is becoming progressively windier. The forecast called for even stronger S-SW winds today and into the night. The las...

We, meaning all the boats in Maine, patiently wait for the fog to lift. It’s been a long wait this spring and summer. There have been longer...

  Carrie Rose is on mooring #5 in Buck’s Harbor at the north end of Eggemoggin Reach. The harbor’s U-shape is created by the appropriately n...

It’s walkies time. Got to catch the 8:50 bus to Eagle Lake Trail. The first thing I do when I wake up is lean over and look at the pilothous...

It is a unique moment when we are the only boat left in an anchorage. When the last boat raises its anchor and motors out it gets unusually ...