David Ryan

David Ryan is a boat builder and USCG licensed master captain. He is the owner of Sailing Montauk and skipper of Montauk''s charter sailing catamaran MON TIKI You can follow him on Twitter @CaptDavidRyan

A Fund Raising Sail to Benefit the Hampton Ballet Theatre School and the Hamptons Festival Orchestra IFRL-Mindiv-andy-kelly-402111-unsplash

A Fund Raising Sail to Benefit the Hampton Ballet Theatre School and the Hamptons Festival Orchestra

David Ryan May 29, 2013

OG readers and writers, please helps us get the word out! On Sunday June 2, Mon Tiki...

Mother’s Day Mon Tiki Style! IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.view-of-the-flower-of-greece

Mother’s Day Mon Tiki Style!

David Ryan May 12, 2013

That’s Amy, the mother of my children at the helm, and Maureen, the mother of Mon Tiki...

Announcing the Mon Tiki Floating Classroom Project IFRL-Mindiv-Society-41067461641_6bd3a5869e_o

Announcing the Mon Tiki Floating Classroom Project

David Ryan May 9, 2013

From the Sailing Montauk Website: Here at Sailing Montauk, we recognize our little hamlet is not simply...

Sunrise over Block Island as seen from Montauk Point, April 30 2013, Montauk NY IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-loc22

Sunrise over Block Island as seen from Montauk Point, April 30 2013, Montauk NY

David Ryan April 30, 2013

Mon Ticket* IFRL-NaPP-Asia-Jakuchu-Paraquet

Mon Ticket*

David Ryan April 26, 2013

This is me and USCG Safety Inspector Giles Loftin, at the (successful) conclusion of today’s inspection. Mon...

Redefining Limits: The Hidden Value of Hard IFRL-TLC-Patterns-24144420577_ddd02c8a18_b

Redefining Limits: The Hidden Value of Hard

David Ryan April 21, 2013

Some of you may recall how taken I was with the coverage of the Bounty hearings by...

Help Wanted, Again IFRL-TLC-Scenery-33783893873_29eb836389_o

Help Wanted, Again

David Ryan April 19, 2013

The last time I posted a Help Wanted ad here on Gents we ended up with Joe,...

Money and Morality: Are the Rich Different? The Rich Buddha Weighs In IFRL-TLC-Scenery-alexander-londono-322213-unsplash

Money and Morality: Are the Rich Different? The Rich Buddha Weighs In

David Ryan April 6, 2013

Writer Matthew Hutson, Social Psychologist Paul Piff, and, ummm, me; at the Huffington Post Live, discussing whether...

Sailing Montauk Has a New Look for the 2013 Season IFRL-TLC-War-32138189660_d527a3043d_o

Sailing Montauk Has a New Look for the 2013 Season

David Ryan April 3, 2013

You want to know something funny? It’s my wife, not me, who is the paid, published author....

Sunset over Fort Pond Bay as seen from Duryea’s Lobster, March 27, 2013, Montauk NY IFRL-NaPP-Asia-rawpixel-id-426222

Sunset over Fort Pond Bay as seen from Duryea’s Lobster, March 27, 2013, Montauk NY

David Ryan March 29, 2013

This photo is in the process of blowing up on Facebook, and its success tends to support...

What is it you actually want from your life as a “creative person”? IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.venice-with-the-salute-314

What is it you actually want from your life as a “creative person”?

David Ryan March 19, 2013

My friend and mentor Bob Wise atop his boat Loose Moose II on launch day This is...

St. Patrick’s Day in Montauk, 2013 IFRL-TLC-Religion-kasper-rasmussen-645206-unsplash

St. Patrick’s Day in Montauk, 2013

David Ryan March 17, 2013

It’s better to live now than then. IFRL-NaPP-Retro-30599219720_a4e7fcd6ea_b

It’s better to live now than then.

David Ryan March 16, 2013

The Thayer/Atlantic thing is still gnawing at me (fellow Leaguers may have noticed a passel of false...

Writing for nothin’ and yer clicks for free! IFRL-Mindiv-amos-bar-zeev-131535-unsplash

Writing for nothin’ and yer clicks for free!

David Ryan March 12, 2013

The recent Thayer/Atlantic dust-up caught my eye because it touches on things that I have some personal...

Montauk and MON TIKI, Winter 2012/13: A Slideshow IFRL-TLC-Scenery-thomas-griggs-641511-unsplash

Montauk and MON TIKI, Winter 2012/13: A Slideshow

David Ryan February 27, 2013

Today’s storm is from the East, not the Northeast. The grass is starting to green up. Winter’s...

How Much Regulation Is Too Little? IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-rijks.bend-in-the-herengracht-seen-from-the-vijzelstraat-167001

How Much Regulation Is Too Little?

David Ryan February 21, 2013

Two men comfort a third (center), who just indentified the body of his son, Wallace Manko. His...

How Much Liberty Is Too Much? IFRL-TLC-War-GAPD-altesnational.in-the-troops-quarters-outside-paris

How Much Liberty Is Too Much?

David Ryan February 15, 2013

Edited add: gCaptain has another great post about the testimony at the Bounty hearing. This passage jumps...

Damning Testimony at the Bounty Hearing IFRL-NaPP-Retro-800px-France_in_XXI_Century._Electric_scrubbing

Damning Testimony at the Bounty Hearing

David Ryan February 14, 2013

The sea doesn’t care what you meant to do. It doesn’t ask what the reason was, let...

Nelly’s Deli, February 12 2013, Montauk NY IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.abbey-among-oak-trees

Nelly’s Deli, February 12 2013, Montauk NY

David Ryan February 13, 2013

There’s more to Montauk than sunsets and beaches

What happens when a gynophobic gay man watches a straight man’s documentary about a lesbian couple?

David Ryan February 12, 2013

Alex Hughes, of The Homo Life: I’ve been scared of vaginas for as long as I can...

Jaybird in reply to CJCOLUCCI on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The weird thing is that people were, in fact, censored for the opposite.
CJCOLUCCI in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025And no one will "censor" you for the opposite. Pointing and laughing isn't censorship.
Brent F on Canadian Leaders Debate Amongst ThemselvesAs much as its nice to blame Trump for everything, Poilievre has very much been the author of much o…
KenB in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025"the Democrats will be right on the basic principle but woefully wrong on the politics." It's a dile…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025May 2020 at the height of COVID had 51 ships blank sailing. April 2025 has over 80 ships blank saili…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Eh, Trump has two major things going his way when it comes to the Dems. 1. The whole desire to fact-…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025American born doctor from Connecticut with the very foreign sounding name Lisa Anderson receives a l…
Saul Degraw in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Do you know who you are dealing with in terms of monomania?
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Yea I mean I don't want to keep speculating. I have my differences on public policy but in my heart…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025There’s a drip drip drip of new information that, if not calculated, is unfortunate enough to suspec…