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The Force is strong in this Coast Guardsman.

‘Captain Ron’ exists. No, seriously.

Published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, the SRT can assess your musculoskeletal fitness and may potentially even predict your lifespan.

My wife and I were slowly heading back to the States after a six-week cruise of Nova Scotia and Bras d’Or Lake. Our Selene 53 trawler, Big Smile, was anchored in Lunenburg Harbor for three days and we were enjoying the spectacular weather.

Before we begin, I will readily admit that I’ve never been a seamstress (seamster?) and, when I was a young man, my mother insisted I learn how to hem the cuffs on my jeans.

Breakfast, after all, is the most important meal of the day. So why not sweeten things up with a perennial favorite: Praline French Toast.

In our time living aboard, Karen and I have come to love the sound, and recently decided to make our own horn for Largo. Lucky for us, our cruising home du jour is the Bahamas, where Queen Conch or Strombus gigas shells are plentiful.

Calling all photo-boaters! This year’s November/December issue features the debut of a new section in the front of the magazine, VIEWFINDER, and we need your help.

We were in the Sea of Cortez, and temperatures were in the high 90s. I needed a dish that wouldn’t go bad in the heat and that I could make ahead of time, preferably without heating up our boat. Three Bean Salad is perfect for times like this.

During the rainy season, when we were just starting The Boat Guy, we invaded Pike Place Market and one of my favorite Lake Union boating destinations, Duke’s Chowder House, to find out why they call chowder, “chowder.”