Category Archives: Sailing

It was a lovely sunny day, the wind was highly variable, oscillating between just to port and starboard of “right on the nose” from the Nor’west, as always seems the case when heading up through the shoals just outside the … Continue reading →

I am currently the harbourmaster at the Lac Deschenes Sailing Club on the Ottawa River in Canada.  As such, I write the occasional piece for our membership newsletter, The Backwind.  I will republish here those articles that might be of … Continue reading →

The picture  at the top of our pages is of my family’s Catalina 22, just off American Camp Island on the eastern shore of the Georgian Bay.  Christy and I spent our honeymoon on that boat.  We weathered a vicious … Continue reading →