Author: David Ryan

“Yes, I know. I don’t want to go back either. But there are some nice people I promised to take out on the next trip so they can experience what we’re experiencing now, so we have to turn around. But it is breaking my heart a little, because this is perfect and I never want it to end.”

Please help my family by helping Mon Tiki win the Dan’s Paper’s “Best of the Best 2014” Charter Sailboat.

A rescue operation is underway in central Bangladesh after a ferry carrying up to 250 passengers capsized while crossing a river. Scores of people are said be missing…

A short video of a perfect sunset cruise on the catamaran Mon Tiki.

The Montauk Catamaran Company is hiring, and believe it or not, you might be a perfect fit for the job!

Imagine a Conestoga Wagon cum RV, with a galley and sleeping quarters, carrying paying passengers and all the tools and supplies used to build and maintain her, going about 80 miles an hour across the prairie.

It was a nice day on Mon Tiki. Wish you could have been with us!

If you looking in our kitchen you’ll see that the refrigerator, cooktop, toaster oven, and slow-cooker (all stainless steel, natch) are branded; but the dishwasher, microwave, and oven are unbranded. The reason why is amusing…

I am hurling head-long into the 12-14 hour days, 7 days a week 10 week period that will determine how well we eat next March.

Life and death in the lost world of profession independent film.

The jobs I’ve had since I have been responsible for paying for my own housing, food, healthcare, etc., have been, in order: Freelance photo-assistant, Freelance commercial photographer and sometime ad copywriter, Freelance filmmaker, Boat-builder, Day-sailing charter captain.

Worked late last night; here’s the view from my office.

Would you feed a food product labeled “Artisanal Wood-board Aged Cheese” to your children if said food product was also label “Imported from China”?

Sunset over Montauk’s west jetty, as seen from the deck of the catamaran Mon Tiki, June 7, 2014

About the time I didn’t end up in Afghanistan and/or Irag.

If Edward Snowden wants to be recognized as a Patriot he should come home.

Depending on how you look at a spiral motion it can look look like a pendulum, or a circle. But it’s not. It’s a spiral. It goes around and around, but processes too. It goes back and forth, and around and around and forward.

After 13 days at sea, during which time we rarely saw more than one vessel a day, on AIS or visually, we found ourselves just south of the Nantucket traffic separation zone (shipping lane) running east and west out of New York Harbor. Now, rather than one or no targets of interest, we had a dozen vessels, some very large and moving very fast, to keep on eye on.

In the six months Mon Tiki and I have been away from home I’ve had about a dozen people express strong interest in sailing with me on Mon Tiki, but most of them flaked. Here’s what I notice…