Sail Delmarva

A successful over night expedition, featuring following winds, fair weather, beer, and returning with the same number of sailors that we sta...

Read this , about a trip part way around the Delmarva in a small open boat. Makes me wish I still had the Stiletto and the time to pok...

Regarding music while sailing or anchored... Tongue-in-cheek.... But take it seriously if you want to. My rant. _____________________ ...

A wet bunk is just too much like camping out, so last weekend I fixed a few nagging leaks. Nothing, until a  torrential down pour strikes, a...

A rather unflattering phrase, one engineers use when they believe a design was developed without the application of math. We see this a lot ...

rev. 9-24-2012 Do you need em'? Yup, if there is a lot of tide, strong storms or wakes, yup. Example. In Chincoteague, as much as we...

Back from our 6th trip around the Delmarva, I've been reviewing notes, picking through photographs,  revising, and printing a new editio...

The conventional wisdom has always been nylon for dock and anchor lines, polyester or something fancy for running rigging, and wire rope or ...

There is this assumption, based upon a romance of the past I suppose, that small towns are clean, and that the small towns of waterman and f...

... or just the C and D Canal at night? Connecting the Delaware Bay and the Chesapeake Bay, this man-made canal has been providing a sh...