Dreher, today: [I] struggle. Here is my contemplative prayer life, in a nutshell. In the past, when I’ve...
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 Davis Mark 3 “emergency sextant” is all you really need. How to Find Where You Are...
When I was a kid, maybe eight years old, I asked my father “Why don’t doctors advertise?”...
Three generations of my wife’s kin enjoying a grey Decemeber day on MON TIKI Our daughters are...
Captain David Ryan, Prince of Grinds, grinding Mon Tiki’s rudders I can’t think of any way to...
The only purpose of this post is answer the request from some of you more more...
“In the long run it is the majority who will determine what the constitutional rights of the...
Some people find the answers to life’s impossible question in the Bible. For the rest of us,...
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Charity. Here is the introductory post for...
From How a Creepy Car Insurance Idea Could Save Thousands of Lives (and the Planet) at The...
(Preamble, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) Phil Bolger’s “Alice”, a 28′ power-cruiser The late and...
Yours truly, holding forth at The Atlantic on scintillating subject of passenger vessel regulations: Uninspected Passenger Vessel...
I am on the Hampton Jitney, west-bound. There’s just been a little to do, a dust up...
S/V INTEMPERANCE, November 2009, somewhere between Montauk Point and Bermuda “You can’t throw bull with the ocean,...
From The California Public Utilities Commission: Lyft, SideCar, and Uber were cited $20,000 each for violations of...
A recent twitter exchange with James Bennet, combined with a recent change to my twitter avatar causes...
Joshua Slocum – Sailing Alone Around the World
It was unseasonably warm here in Montauk today. The ongoing gasoline issues and last week’s nor’easter had...
For those of you playing along at home, there will be some required reading for this upcoming...