Earwigoagin

This 1942 cover of The New Yorker passed through Facebook and merits a repost here. It shows the outdated concept, that the whole family mus...

I learned to sail, more or less, by myself; by taking out a small singlehanded pram, exploring the nooks and crannies of a river, enjoying t...

Lots of parents (especially, it seems, the Dads) take their kids out on their small singlehanded dinghies. The kids quickly discover that th...

Earwigoagin has been reporting on the exploits of the Tuthill sisters racing their boat-speed challenged Snark in this one-race, come one, c...

The My2Fish blog is about all things Sunfish sailing . On his blog you can find all sort of videos of Sunfish sailors and sailing (as well a...

Nope, I wasn't the one to get out on the water last weekend but here are two videos of families that devoted part of Easter Weekend to k...

The previous header photo was of the two intrepid sisters racing the Sea Snark in the Archipelago Rally in New England. They were back a...

I was watching a father and young daughter, in an Academy dinghy, puttering about off SSA last night, in very light wind, and was reminded I...

I haven't posted about the Sea Snark for some time so when I came across this video of that great little 11' foam lateen-rigged din...

In keeping with Earwigoagin's current theme of festivals and boats shows; from Doryman's neck of the woods , a video of the Portland...

Following along on my "Kids and Parents" series is a family sail in a 10'10" (3.3 meter) Mirror Dinghy. Video is kind of ...

A few years ago, Nick Hayes published a book "Saving Sailing; full of suggestions to grow the sport. Tillerman wrote a post about his t...

I ran across a YouTube video, that in a sideways fashion, brought back memories of my dad and his attempts to get our entire family sailing....