THESE ARE THE NAUTICAL CHRONICLES, BOATING STORIES AND RELATED ANTICS

Just the other morning, while reading Northeast Boating, I asked Louise what her three most memorable boating adventures have been. She immediately said her first was the sighting of the Statue of Liberty while coming down the East River; her second was our trip from Castine, Maine, through the Eggemoggin Reach, and her third was our bare boat charter out of Road Town, Tortolla, BVI to Anegada Island. It amazes me how she and I can have such different ideas. My most memorable voyages, to date, have been the “Rogue Wave” that broke over our bow on the way out of the river one day, the “Assault on Hogg Island” one night by Paul and me, and the day the dolphins traveled with us out beyond Cape Ann (discounting of course, our first trip to the red marker from Larry’s Marina).

THE CAPTAIN and MATE: Captain Robert Brown and his wife and first mate, Louise, continue their boating adventures out of Cove Marina on the Merrimack River in Salisbury, Massachusetts. They live, in the off season, by the sea, at North Beach in Hampton, New Hampshire. In 2004, Bob successfully completed the U.S. Coast Guard examination and received his 100-ton Master’s license. Since then, he and his mates have traveled the near-coastal waterways from Ft. Lauderdale to Bar Harbor including three bare-boat adventures in the British Virgin Islands and one in the South of France.