Chicago Tug

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...

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...