Stories of Boat Related Mishaps and Experiences | Soundings Online Column

The Erewhon chronicles move topside

Dear patient reader, when I left you in the June issue you may recall I had reported on refinishing the interior of my classic sailboat — with which, no doubt, you should be much familiar by now.

So welcome to Part II of the continuing Erewhon chronicles.

OCD and the classic Sailmaster 22

Jack Sherwood Early last November I again began removing anything easily removable from my small sailboat to my home workshop for my annual refinishing ritual. But as the cabin emptied, the open spaces revealed a desperate need for the first interior painting in 20 years. Thankfully, it will be the last interior painting with me on the end of a roller and brush.

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The cruising life of JJ Talman

Davis’ Pub regulars gathered in early March to remember one of their own —

JJ Talman III, a colorful character of the Maritime Republic of Eastport in Annapolis. JJ, as he was known to all, died of emphysema this winter at the age of 77.

Power play

Pondering one’s future afloat

Trying to evade transferring my waning energies from finishing basement boatwork to housework late this winter, I turned to Annapolis Classic Watercraft for a boating story.

‘Shipwreck’ Sherwood and other mishaps

For almost 40 years I have written about sailing for various publications, stories that covered my boating-related mishaps and the experiences of others. Some events were not amusing at the time they unfolded, and one bordered near disaster and earned me the nickname “Shipwreck.”

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Jack Sherwood, Writer-at-Large

Jack has been cruising Chesapeake Bay and writing about the region for more than 25 years. His critically acclaimed book, "Maryland's Vanishing Lives," was published by Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University Press and is now in its second printing. Before joining Soundings, Jack was a feature writer at the Washington (D.C.) Star for nearly 20 years and a senior editor at Chesapeake Bay magazine from 1995 to 1998. His monthly Bay Tripper column focuses on the Chesapeake.

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