Chicago Tug

    Americans know, if ever travelling outside the country, that most things we do are constrained by the threat of lawsuits. Certainly, eve...

       An egg heady thing we do when on Carrie Rose is to stop at the libraries of the towns we visit. Many are quite nice in a tra...

  This posting is for my own personal gratification, so please feel free to stop reading if you get bored. Charlotte and I decided t...

     In the late seventies I bought a musical instrument after seeing an ad in the Whole Earth Review. Over the next seve...

                   I anticipated a rowdy passage and I was not wrong. After three days in Gloucester, MA it was time to leave. We sat out th...

It’s hot. Not a common occurrence in Maine. At 9PM it is still hot, though a coolish breeze out of the west just came through the port side ...

  June 10, 2026   It is June 10th, and Charlotte and I would typically be in Maine or at least on the way there. Since Carrie Rose left our ...

This year was different than the past few years. This year, on the water at least, was tranquil. Carrie Rose’s engine purred. No matter what...

My topic for today is the boat as therapy. Over the past several years Charlotte and I have suffered various musculoskeletal aliments. Now I...

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...