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  Our last night on Carrie Rose was spent tied to Atlantic Boat Company’s (ABC) mooring #5 in Herrick Bay. The mooring ball proclaims that t...

    Let’s see, I was born in 1953 and that would have made me 15 y/o in 1968. During the summers before 8 th  grade and my freshman year at ...

  Seagulls are as rapacious as they are comical. They are communal but completely out for themselves. They whine like wimpy dogs and growl l...

  In the Midwest we are familiar with storms that diagonally cross the country from Mexico to Canada. They engender squalls, thunder storms ...

For 18 years I wrote a monthly commentary for the Chicago Shimpo, a Japanese-American newspaper. It was first published in 1945 after WWII e...

  We have been summer cruising on Carrie Rose for at least 12 years and have owned her since 2003. In that time, we have docked thousands of...

7-24-2024   Chicago was a great place to grow up. There were few cars on my neighborhood’s two-way streets. Only the oil and garbage trucks ...

  6-28-2024   If you would have asked me a month ago if we were going to Maine, I’d have told you we would never get there this year. I was ...

  Weather apps’ small icons do not do justice to Maine’s off shore weather. They are too cute. After days of fog, rain and wind in NE Harbor...

Carrie Rose’s various fresh water tanks were filled. The launch took us to shore for one last shower. Mark, the launch driver, is the MDI Hi...

Carrie Rose was getting antsy after being anchored in Somes Harbor for six days. There was the prospect of clearing weather so she lobbied f...

A 35 nautical mile cruise yesterday from the inland waters of East Penobscot Bay to the open ocean side of Mt. Desert Island, NE harbor spec...