The Offshore Voyaging Reference Site

A Sailor’s Motorboat

"Morgan's Cloud", a McCurdy and Rhodes 56' cutter, seen beside an arch berg with glacier and mountain behind, a typical East Greenland scene. The icecap reaches down to the sea in numerous glaciers and there are a floating profusion of bergs and smaller pieces of ice to be carefully avoided.

Phyllis and I own a better motorboat, for our purposes, than most motorboats. Let me explain why I say that and why it matters.


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