Not very long ago, sailors feared the edge, the place just past known seas, where ships would fall from the edge of the earth. In their minds the earth was flat. Sailors believed wrongly pushing their craft past known limits was folly, which could end with free...
Continued … At one point I looked up to see a towering wave looming much higher than the deck and as it curled towards me I realized it was going to break over the foredeck. I grabbed a shroud with both hands and waited for the wall of water to hit. I was sent...
I gazed out on the sparkling blue waters of San Francisco Bay from my 33 foot sailboat, Rough and Rettie, and thought it was a perfect day for sailing. A rarity for April. My friend Sue and I were heading to the starting line off of City Front for the 1983...
After four years, the New Orleans AdventureSail® is blossoming into what our founders may have envisioned for the program. It is beginning to fulfill the goals; “To enrich the lives of America’s young at-risk girls through sailing, thus opening their eyes...
By Linda Newland — reposted with permission from America’s Boating Club’s (US Power Squadron) quarterly magazine, The Ensign, Summer 2018) In summer 1982, I contracted to deliver an Olson 30 from Honolulu to San Francisco—my first skippered delivery. A...
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