Rusty Ring

Let us walk alone together, comrade sojourner. We will be like pebbles in a bag, polishing each other bright. (Ship's dogs...

"A man is never lost at sea." Ernest Hemingway (Photo courtesy of Paul Harrison and Wikimedia Commons.)

(Dredging on the high tide.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

"Gratitude to squelch my anger, and tenacity to overcome the obstacles." Henry Winkler's recipe for success. Note that ...

(Local charter and school ship, 127-foot Zodiac , built in 1924 for a wealthy industrialist, outbound from her homeport of Bellingham, W...

(I've never seen so many boats anchored off Fairhaven [Washington], where the marinas are all at capacity. Most of the newcomers a...

(This is a ship's larboard navigation light. When they change them the crews tend to drop the dead one overboard, so we often fin...

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(My nephew and I went fishing all day a few weekends ago. We loaded the boat in his truck, drove across the county, launched in a lar...

(Had a long chat with the fellow who drew and built this motorsailer. Whole vessel cost him $5000, including a woodstove he also drew a...

I recently re-read a journal I kept in January 2003, during the period of my divorce. I was struck by the events and emotions it recorded...

"El mundo era una estructura muy compleja que únicamente podía contemplarse desde el mar; y la tierra firme sólo adquiría proporcion...