One For The Road
Written by Robert M. LaneI COULDN'T HELP BEING EXCITED, AND CONCERNED. WE WERE driving north on Interstate 5 toward Bellingham, Washington, for the boating challenge of a lifetime. It was snowing as we crossed high ground at Lake Samish, and, better yet, the trees were dipping in the wind.
Crossroads To Paradise
Written by Peter Swanson"It's 7 in the morning. On the ground floor of the Jaragua Hotel she is assaulted at the noise-that atmosphere, familiar by now, of voices, motors, radios blaring at full volume, meringues, salsas, danzones, boleros, rock, rap, all jumbled together, assailing one another and assailing her with their shrill clamor...An explosion of savage life, immune to the tide of modernization.Something in Dominicans clings to this pre-rational, magical form: this appetite for noise." -Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
A New Growler
Written by Bill ParlatoreLOOKING BACK ON IT, THE SIGNS WERE CLASSIC. WE'D MADE OUR WAY DOWN ONE PATH, only to find our needs had changed when we got there. And, as so often happens, other life factors changed as well.
For a few months, I stubbornly held on to the expectation that it was reasonable to incorporate new requirements while following the original path.
A Voluntary Survey
Written by Robert M. LaneNORMALLY A MARINE SURVEY IS GREETED WITH DREAD, OR APPREHENSION AT THE LEAST. SOMEthing important//like a sale, a bank loan or insurance coverage//always seems to depend on the outcome of a detailed examination of a boat and its systems.
Educate Over Legislate
It is probably inevitable that stricter boating laws or mandated owner competency testing and licensing will come. It hasn't happened yet, but how can we avoid it?
