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From the Deck: Fog Run

A log book was very useful to a coastwise cruiser before the invention of radar and GPS as a record of courses steered and distances run. Should fog shut down, he can retrace his steps on the chart and at least give a good guess as to his position. Capt. Hugh Williams in 24-foot Helen

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From the Deck: 1938

Hugh Williams and I, aged 22, after a summer in charge of the nautical program at a co-ed summer camp and a year at college, planned a cruising program for boys. Hugh had a quite fast and able 26-foot sloop, Helen G., with no engine but three bunks. I had Dorothy, a handsome 28-foot gaff-headed

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From the Deck: Boatbuilders Festival

In East Boothbay on July 28, to music by bagpipes and bands, was held the annual Boatbuilders’ Festival. Here was gathered a diverse assembly of small boats, several large boats afloat, and many instructive exhibits. The display of so much design talent and craftsmanship was overwhelming. For example, there was a 14-foot skiff, shining in

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Old Old Boats

In the second week in January, a replica of a 17th century ketch, Discovery, left Boothbay Harbor with a fair wind, spreading a wide fan of white water ahead of her bluff blows. She was a new boat built by the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard. Her upper spars had been lashed on deck and her stout

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An American Good Samaritan

The American, Squanto, was born in the late 1500s in the village of Patuxet on Cape Cod Bay, later named by the English Plymouth, Massachusetts. Lacking written records, we may assume that he grew up there learning to catch fish, plant corn, hunt deer, ducks and turkeys and other wild game. His people often traveled

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From the Deck: DISCOVERY 1607

I stepped into the shop of The Boothbay Harbor Shipyard to see how their replica of DISCOVERY was coming on. I walked around her at floor level. She looked massive with double-sawn frames of angelique and two-inch planking of wana. She is partly planked from the deck down and from the garboards up. I could

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