In Depth
Featured Stories on Boating and Boater Safety
‘Life will never be completely the same’
Teen sailor Abby Sunderland recounts her dismasting and rescue - and looks ahead to another solo attempt
World-class sailors and others chime in
I must confess that I'm not risk-averse. Quite a few years ago, at the age of 19, I enlisted in the Marine Corps and requested duty in Vietnam. A few years after finishing my service and following the completion of my undergraduate degree, I started and ran my own construction company with my younger brother. Fast forward a few years and I became immersed in the world of sailing. Multiple round-the-world races on record-setting boats, speed records through the Southern Ocean, and scores of races and transoceanic passages testify to that fact.
Sunderland critics doth protest too much, and it's a sign of troubled timesGulf oil spill: the devil's cocktail
Add hurricane winds to the oil-and-water mix, and Southern coasts could face a surge of slime
On June 1, the Atlantic hurricane season kicked in, the red snapper season opened, and more than a half-million gallons of oil a day continued to spew from the Deepwater Horizon well into the Gulf of Mexico.
The fading glory of working waterfronts
Coastal Maine communities that once thrived on the sea's bounty are facing the end of an era
Lela Anderson took her first job in a sardine cannery when she was a sophomore in high school, and except for a few summers picking blueberries, she has worked on the packing line stuffing sardines in tins most of her adult life.
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