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He Spent 34 Years on the Bering Sea. His Escape Pod Is Now Priced at $169,000
The author writes a Substack newsletter that profiles all sorts of interesting boats. This one was published on May 29, 2026 and is reprinted here with permission. (More about the author at the end of the story.)
Captain Jack Molan...
8 Florida West Marine Stores Closing (Nationwide List)
Florida got hit the worst as a bankrupt West Marine closes 56 stores nationwide. As the headline says, Michigan, Washington and California followed with five closings in each.
Eight Florida stores are closing: Port Charlotte, Bonita Spring...
Unmanned Vessel to the Rescue
Equipped with a diesel engine, the Corsair 24 that rescued two downed U.S. airmen can travel at 35 knots with a range of more than 1,000 nautical miles and a 1,000-pound payload capacity.
We have just seen the future of search and rescue a...
'Odyssey' Movie Anachronism: That Viking Longship Ain't Right
The blockbuster summer movie “Odyssey” has got the right-wing harpies groaning and moaning: How could Director Christopher Nolan cast a black woman as “the face that launched a thousand ships?” The poet Homer, they say, may have been blind,...
Vikings Used High‑Tech Shipbuilding To Dominate
The author is an associate professor in Creative Writing and English Literature, and a researcher into Old Norse Literature, at Flinders University. This story was first published in The Conversation on May 14, 2026 and is reprinted here wi...
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Newspaper editor. Cruiser: Nova Scotia to Caribbean. Writer for boating magazines, specializing in Florida, Bahamas and Greater Antilles. Captain of excursion catamarans in the Dominican Republic. Delivery skipper. U.S. Coast Guard master's license.
Genevieve Jacobs landed in Vermont in 1987 after a lifetime under sail. She is a long time professor of psychology, a mother and grandmother, and hopes you enjoy this excerpt from her current work in progress, “Jenny: A Night Sea Journey”.
Writer, Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, novelist. Essays from the Himalayas on dharma, sacred objects, Madhyamaka philosophy, and AI governance. Author of Waya. Cherokee Wolf Clan. The long road from Key West to the Kora Path.
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