Capt. Lou Boudreau
Racing The Big Ones
The sights and sounds of a fine schooner can bewitch, and keep the enamored returning, in body and mind, forever.
Of Pirates, Doubloons, and a Golden Gratuity
The buccaneers and pirates of long ago stashed their loot in the oddest places.
It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s The UFO of PSV
We worked our way south during the Goldwater family cruise, our 138-foot Herreshoff schooner Janeen reveling in the brisk trade winds.
Women and children first, unless …
In the winter of 1975, we sailed the 138-foot Herreshoff schooner Janeen (now the Mariette) to the Grenadines.
Honor And Embarrassment Aboard The Bluenose II
At age 17 I joined the schooner Bluenose II as a deckhand when she was off St. Lucia in the West Indies.
Pirate Adventures on The Real Treasure island
On a sunny morning in May 1958, north of the British Virgin Islands, a school of dolphins played under the bowsprit of a large sailing vessel. The ship rolled gently on the blue Atlantic, and her bow wave gurgled and hissed under her figurehead.
The flying fish and a chance encounter
The Virgin Islands lie just east of Puerto Rico, stretching some 40 miles from the west end of St. Thomas to the wreck-strewn reefs off Anegada.