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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Hauling out a sailboat at the end of the season is usually a sad event for most of us. It means cold weather is fast approaching and, with the exception of hardcore frostbiting, our chances of getting out on the local waters before next spring...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
The mere thought of launch day can give some sailors the jitters while others lapse into a smiling transcendental state as they contemplate the event. For most, launch day involves a single boat, whether it means backing the trailer down a ramp, or...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
When I was a boy in upstate New York, we’d sit on the front porch and watch the summer boat traffic on the Mohawk River, mostly tugs and barges or cabin cruisers, but occasionally a sailboat would come along with its mast lashed horizontally atop...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
When I was a boy in upstate New York, we’d sit on the front porch and watch the summer boat traffic on the Mohawk River, mostly tugs and barges or cabin cruisers, but occasionally a sailboat would come along with its mast lashed horizontally atop...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Even if you despise acronyms as I do, as sailors you undoubtedly recognize that ASA stands for American Sailing Association and EPIRB for Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. But I’d bet my CQR anchor that the LGBT reference to a new...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Even if you despise acronyms as I do, as sailors you undoubtedly recognize that ASA stands for American Sailing Association and EPIRB for Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. But I’d bet my CQR anchor that the LGBT reference to a new...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Every so often life brings us to a crossroads. Bob Buck arrived at one of these metaphorical intersections in 1998. Then in his mid-40s, he was simply tired of practicing law and the sea was calling. In Bob’s case, it wasn’t simply a matter of...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
There’s a small tavern near Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia, down by the museum’s vintage World War II submarine and aging battleships, where the wall memorabilia makes it clear that this city is the birthplace of the United States Navy. Hard...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
If you walk around Salem, Massachusetts, a bipolar city if ever there was one, you’ll get a heavy dose of witchcraft history and an equal shot of nautical lore. Literary types revel at the thought of author Nathaniel Hawthorne toiling inside the...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Let’s face it. Most of us sailors head to the Caribbean for the caressing sun, turquoise sea, and because it’s a place where we can act like we’re 10 years old. It’s all yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. I’d bet most of you have a few friends...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Most sailors are keenly aware that the sea is the last frontier—at least until space travel gets to the point where people can buy a rocketship for the price of a cruising sailboat. With that knowledge comes some serious responsibility,...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Hauling out a sailboat at the end of the season is usually a sad event for most of us. It means cold weather is fast approaching and, with the exception of hardcore frostbiting, our chances of getting out on the local waters before next spring are...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Seven or eight summers ago, a bunch of guys from a town north of Boston clamored aboard a sailboat for a weekend of fun, having no clue that their shenanigans would morph into the annual Spank the Monkey Tour. It was clear from the start that the...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
They’re easy to recognize at any chart briefing because they’re talking instead of listening and acting as though the whole affair is a waste of time. Usually these blowhards and know-it-alls are men, though I’m certain a few female...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
One evening last December, while crewing aboard the supermaxi YuuZoo off the coast of Australia, the wind upped and steadied so that we were moving along at 18 knots with the waxing moon overhead and a shimmer on the water. The watch captain was...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
A few months ago, a national television news crew arrived at the docks in Naples, Italy, looking to interview one of the kids enrolled in Mascalzone Latino, the sailing school founded by world-class competitive sailor and shipping company heir...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Al D’Alessandro opens a file cabinet in his Marblehead, Massachusetts office and rummages for information about past boats, crews and races. The octogenarian is looking for evidence of his first Newport-to-Bermuda Race in back in 1970. “Seems...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
When I was a kid we wrote school research papers using the Encyclopedia Britannica. My Aunt Stella had them on a shelf in her parlor, but the update editions hadn’t been included in the purchase price so our information was usually a bit stale. ...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Every so often, life drops something out of the blue in your lap. That’s how I ended up crewing aboard a supermaxi last month off the coast of southeast Australia, surfing the waves toward Tasmania as part of the annual Rolex Sydney-to-Hobart...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Nearly four years have gone by since a hail of bullets tore into the 47-foot cruising yacht Gandalf as she made her way across the Gulf of Aden. Luckily, sailors Jay Barry and Carol Martini of Gloucester, Massachusetts, lived to tell about their...
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