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Failed winters are the bane of life in New York. Winter means ice in the Hudson as the North River is commonly called. Today winter came to ...

The shortest voyages can be the most gratifying.  Today in a December thaw I rowed my 8 ft. plastic dinghy out .48 nm, past Big Tom (a rock)...

18 of 26 still racing, Michel Desjoyeaux leads the fleet by 44 miles (after 14,000 nm) as they approach the "gate" east of New Zea...

Valparaiso - a neutral city and site of a key battle in our War of 1812, is the headquarters of the Chilean navy.   Taisy studied there at t...

That's what they call the YangTze   扬子江 - The Chang Jiang 长江，the Long River - which is in fact the longest river in the world.  What you...

Experimental archeology is what they call a crew of 60 sailing Sea Stallion - a 30 meter replica Viking ship - 1,150 nm from Dublin to Roski...

Riders Through the Snow New York Times December 24, 2008 During the Iditarod Trail Invitational, racers brave hundreds of miles of frozen Al...

I haven't yet approached China by sea.  When I went to Shanghai for a couple weeks in 2005 I went with British piloting charts, hoping t...

Taisy was there - on the steps of the General Post office and all around mid-town.  With 5,000 other Santas, red, green, and all celebratin...

   It's irresistible to be light-heartedly cynical "why ride that far on a motorcycle for chrissakes to see a goat and some old rui...