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A sea of change over these last 50 years

After 50 years and somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 issues, what do you do for an encore? If you’re in the publishing business, you’re conditioned to look ahead to the next issue, the next set of deadlines, tomorrow’s blog, story or...

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Bay Tripper

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When company time became sailing time

At this unrestricted stage of my extended life, I can cruise when and where I choose and stay as long or as short a time as I wish. But as a newspaperman in the early 1970s who was smitten with sailing, my...

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New England Fishing

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Live bait: unfair advantage or labor-intensive art form?

As Charley Soares noses the bow of his 18-foot skiff toward the edge of the boulder field, I glance quickly at the near-2-pound scup dangling from a treble at the working end of my line and brace my knees under the coaming...

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Loose Cannon

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A tale of two rice bowls

If you want to get a man’s attention, there are two surefire ways to go about it. You can steal his mate or break his rice bowl, as we learned to say back when our war was Vietnam.

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