ships are characters in their own right.
Sometimes you're favored with fair wind and following seas, and sometimes you're blessed with no wind and a broken engine. Continued: The area known as Penguin Bank, south of [...]
Don't get on that ship! The Bounty, Essex, Pequod, Titanic, Andrea Gail, Sea Wind, Lucky Dragon -- these are names of doomed ships, the epitome of sea voyages gone badly. [...]
Wendy Hinman is an adventurer, speaker and the award-winning author of two books, Tightwads on the Loose and Sea Trials; Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire. Tightwads [...]
Chinese ghosts... I have an abiding fascination in the long history and culture of China. My mother had a lacquer tri-fold screen with small shelves on which she kept some [...]
What would it be like to live aboard a historic arctic sailing ship? Freelance writer Bruce MacDonald wrote the book about the life and times of North Star of Herschel [...]
Bob and I sailed our 36 foot sloop from Hawaii to French Polynesia in 2000, an experience which gave us a great appreciation for the Polynesian voyagers of old who [...]
I became interested in the history of hospital ships and shipboard medicine while researching my historical novels, Barbados Bound and Surgeon’s Mate, that take place during Britain’s rise to naval power [...]
As National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) begins its final week, the home stretch, I'm working to finish the revisions on a novel I've had in the works for several years. [...]
After 18 years of owning Topaz, a Luders 36, Cheoy Lee-built sailboat, Bob and I have said goodbye, passing ownership to our friend John, who has helped us [...]
My Life as an 18th-Century British Seaman: How my ocean crossing aboard His Majesty's Bark Endeavour Replica became a historical fiction series Society of Southwest Author's Forum November 20, [...]
