Featured Books
True Colours by Alaric Bond
Schooner: Building a Wooden Boat on Martha's Vineyard by Dunlop & Shaw
Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships by W. H. Bunting
His Majesty's Ship by Alaric Bond
Galveston's the Elissa: The Tall Ship of Texas by Kurt Voss
My River Chronicles - Rediscovering the America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong
The Frigate Surprise: The Complete Story of the Ship Made Famous in the Novels of Patrick O'Brian by by Geoff Hunt and Brian Lavery
James Nelson's George Washington's Secret Navy
Defying Empire:Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York by Thomas Truxes
Deadly Shoals, a Wiki Coffin Mystery by Joan Druett
Star Crossedby Linda Collison
The Privateer's Revenge: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Peter Wicked: A Matty Graves Novel (The Matty Graves Novels)
The Jackass Frigate byAlaric Bond
Steady As She Goesby John Molloy
Voyages, the Age of Sail: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, 1492-1865
Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Make America’s Cup about Sailing, not Money
Larry Ellison and Ernesto Bertarelli perhaps bear equal blame for a litigious and incredibly costly America’s Cup race which turned more on technology and court rulings than on sailing. Now Ellison is singing a different tune, saying ”We’d like this to not be a matter of who invests the most money in designing their [...]
The Return of Farrell Lines? Or Merely Seeing Shadows?
Farrell Lines was a grand old US steamship company. It had an office in downtown Manhattan full of ship models and paintings of ships. Behind the receptionist, as you came in the door, there was a world map with chains of white lights showing the various trade routes served by Farrell Lines ships. The world [...]
Riddle of the Dead Whales
Disturbing news from Patagonia: Riddle of the dead whales MORE than 300 southern right whales, most of them young calves, have been found dead in the past five years in the waters off Argentina’s Patagonian coast, one of their most important breeding grounds.
New Around-the-World Sailing Record – Franck Cammas and Groupama 3
We are a week late in noting this but Franck Cammas and and his nine-men crew onboard their 105 ft trimaran, Groupama 3, have won the Jules Verne trophy by setting a new round the world sailing record of 48 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes and 55 seconds. The boat left Brest on January 31 and sailed [...]
Missing Sailor’s Yacht and Dog Found
Paul Janse van Rensburg’s sailboat, Tafadzwa, was found drifting near the Chatham Islands in the Pacific east of New Zealand. A search of the boat found van Rensburg’s dog alive and the boat’s life raft still aboard. No sign was found of van Rensburg who has been missing for 16 days. Friends ’shattered’ to find sailor not [...]
Update: 46 Still Missing from South Korean Cruiser Cheonan
Forty six crew members are reported missing from the South Korean Cruiser Cheonan which sank late Friday. South Korean officials are all but ruling out direct North Korean involvement in the sinking. Fifty eight of the crew were rescued.
Abby Sunderland to round Cape Horn Tuesday
An update from Sail-World. Abby Sunderland is close to rounding Cape Horn, while malfunctioning autopilots may threaten her circumnavigation attempt. Teen sailor Abby Sunderland to round Cape Horn Tuesday 16-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland, following Jessica Watson in her attempt to be the youngest non-stop circumnavigator, is only a couple of days away from sailing around her [...]
HMAS Adelaide – A Hard Ship to Sink
The HMAS Adelaide is still afloat, as much due to court action as to Archimedes Law. The HMAS Adelaide was the lead ship of the Adelaide class of guided missile frigates built for the Royal Australian Navy, not to be confused with the clipper ship City of Adelaide. She was scheduled to be scuttled as an artificial reef [...]
Tales of the Seven Seas: The Escapades of Captain Dynamite Johnny O’Brien
Dennis M. Powers’ Tales of the Seven Seas: The Escapades of Captain Dynamite Johnny O’Brien recounts the story of a larger than life sailor who rose from being a bullied sixteen year old ship’s boy sailing before the mast to become a ship’s captain at only 25. Over his more than 60 year career, Captain “Dynamite” [...]
South Korean Corvette Cheonan Sinks
Report: South Korean navy ship sinks A South Korean navy ship sank in the Yellow Sea near North Korea late Friday, and the navy shot at an unidentified ship toward the north, according to reports quoting South Korean government officials.
Schooner Amistad, Slave Ship Replica, Arrives in Havana
One hundred and seventy one years after the slave ship Amistad sailed from Havana carrying a cargo of captives from Sierra Leone, the replica of the Amistad arrived in Havannah harbor yesterday. The captives on the original slave ship seized control of the vessel and sailed the ship to the United States where they were finally granted their freedom in 1841 by [...]
Molly Shakespear Rimington – Wartime Wren Writer
Molly Shakespear Rimington died at age 93 at the end of January but her obituary only appeared in the Telegraph this week. She was a fascinating individual. The daughter of Brigadier Talbot Shakespear, she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service, WRNS, popularly and officially known as the Wrens just before the start of World War II. [...]
Cheap Fokkers
OK, I admit it. I am posting this because I like the title of the article. Cheap Fokkers Peru has bought, real cheap, two Dutch maritime reconnaissance aircraft (Fokker 60s). These are slightly longer and heavier versions of the twin engine Fokker 50 (which, in turn, was a larger version of the very popular Fokker [...]
The Surreal Battle Against Somali Pirates Continues – One Pirate Confirmed Dead, the Rest Set Free
Private security guards shot and killed a Somali pirate during an attack on the the MV Almezaan off the coast of East Africa. This is believed to be the first killing of a pirate by armed private contractors. The MV Almezaan has been hijacked twice before. Six other pirates were captured by EU naval [...]
Scientists watch whale’s birth near Navy training range
Scientists watch whale’s birth near Navy training range Scientists surveying the area near a planned Navy training range said Tuesday they witnessed an endangered right whale giving birth off the Northeast Florida coast. It was only the second time a right whale’s birth has been seen and studied, and it gave researchers new insights [...]
