HAWSEPIPER: The Longest Climb

 Feeling shitty- weather, and the fact that after busting my ass for several hours in service to a rented carpet cleaner, my carpets still l...

Well, 77 days is enough for me. I'm done. Heading home tomorrow. Got a pit stop to make.     I'm feeling more than the usual ...

Ugh. I don't even have the energy to flush this out fully... I have a friend who is a conspiracy theorist. Nothing, but nothing is what ...

You have to understand that sailors are for the most part a VERY fastidious, tidy lot of people, when viewed as an aggregate. A guy's bu...

The most ridiculous part is that this is not even a rare occurrence. The real ballbuster of it all is that the guy at the helm of the spe...

As a former commercial fisherman, it's perhaps no surprise that I'm not a huge fan of NOAA Fisheries, the ever-expanding and increas...

Here's what most people think of as a large ship when they see one go by at the beach. Next to it is what I think of as a large ship. ...