Pure. Unadulterated. Joy.
byThe simple and profound joy of sailing a small boat may be more powerful now than it has ever been. After all the years. And all…
The simple and profound joy of sailing a small boat may be more powerful now than it has ever been. After all the years. And all…
And now for something completely different. As you’ve probably surmised, I do so like sailing in weird random places like, oh, I don’t know, Russia. And…
The yacht design and naval architecture office of Carl Persak and Jeremy Wurmfeld is close to the water, but not in a sleepy harbor town like…
I’m one of the lucky ones who gets to sail off over the horizon every once in a while, and one of my my latest trips had…
We all know the stereotype of a Russian oligarch bathing in champagne and having peacocks in gilded cages in each of his 27 garishly decorated bathrooms,…
Ummm. I’m not making this up. That’s the wonderful X-412 that I sailed aboard on my recent Baltic sojourn in the background. That’s the crazy Russian…
When it comes to the Hermitage and the Winter Palace… Fit for a king, no? Actually more like an emperor. Today was spent wandering the never-ending…
Well, it’s about 1am local Russia time and the big bass disco party is in full swing here at our marina in St. Petersburg. And since…
Tallinn was founded on June 7, 1238, by the Teutonic Knights who were looking for a bit of respite from the Crusades, for cripes’ sake! What…
If the region of the world called “Scandinavia” had a Chamber of Commerce (which I’m sure there must be some sort of government agency that acts…
The Sealegs 7.1 Meter amphibious RIB is way, way more James Bond than your average yacht tender. In fact, the Sealegs 7.1 is really just a commercially…
This is a hard post for me to put together because it wasn’t supposed to be this way. You see, I was supposed to sail aboard Toccata—the…