Alaric Bond’s The Patriot’s Fate, the fifth in his Fighting Sail series, is an exciting nautical adventure that is also a rich and fascinating voyage through the history, politics and complex divided loyalties of Britain at the end of the eighteenth century.
Many novels in the genre follow the model used by C.S. Forester, Patrick O’Brian and so many others, where the focus is the career of a single Royal Navy officer. The Patriot’s Fate, like the other books in Bond’s Fighting Sail series, is told through multiple perspectives, ranging from the ship’s captain, to the junior officers and warrants, to Jack Tars and the ship’s boys. The approach gives a much broader sense of what is going on aboard ship. It works particularly well in The Patriot’s Fate because it allows parallel and overlapping story lines that keep the novel moving along briskly.
Two great schooner festivals and regattas are now underway on Massachusetts’ Cape Ann and Cape Cod. On Cape Ann, the 
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Tonight’s sky will be graced by a “blue moon.” It is the first blue moon since New Year’s Eve 2009. The next blue moon won’t appear until July 2015. Tonight’s full moon won’t actually be blue for most of us. A “blue moon” is commonly defined as the second full moon in a calendar month. It doesn’t happen often and so is the inspiration for the phrase, “once in a blue moon.”
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If you are near New York harbor, there is a closing party for the “Ships of New York Harbor: Marine Art of Christina Sun and Frank Hanavan” exhibit on the 
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The old saying goes that success is the best revenge. 
There were several recent news accounts related to the 
Updates to two sets of recent posts: After considerable delay the container ship 
Commercial sail has not yet returned, but there are interesting niche players who are doing what they can to change that. The sailing brigantine