A sailboat motors alone in the vast ocean as the sun sets. Our 32-hour trek to Rockland was sort of magical to us, speeding along at 6.5...

FEEDING "PET" STRIPED BASS HOTDOGS AT AVERY POINT Tomorrow we will find our way on Long Island Sound again to head to Essex, Connecticut,...

The sailing continues to be good. After the birthday party, we left Mystic with a quick overnight in Fishers Islands West Harbor and...

We met Melville at the Whaling Museum in Sag Harbor. After considering our offer overnight, he accepted our invitation to join our crew....

As can be expected, fog and rain and overcast skies can diminish our desire to go sailing. What do we do instead? Well, in Mystic we...

Hopewell Valley’s High School Graduating Senior Vanessa Walrath: One of the most fun graduations we have been to in a long time!...

Granddaughters Lina and Emmy Walrath Visit Afterglow. Along with some of the best sailing we have done this whole trip, all is not...

Just about a half-hour’s sail from Mystic is Fishers Island, a place with great renown but one that neither of us had ever been to...

Too often residents do not really take part in the cultural and historical aspects of their hometowns, and Norma is guilty of that. She...

Six days anchorage in the Mystic River was a real treat for me to visit family—an overnight at my son Ivan’s house and fresh showers and...

On Sunday, a weather forecaster predicted (as one was heard to say), “There will be a 100% chance of rain on Sunday.” Well, Sunday on...

On Thursday, with a big weekend of wind and rain almost upon us, we were happy to be moored safely away in North Cove in Old Saybrook,...

(Norma) Back pain is a real pain when living on a boat (or any other time -Allen.) So knowing that Yale New Haven Hospital was there, I...

We had a nice sail South from Stamford to Port Jefferson and made a right turn to go along the sand bar and back into Conscience Bay. ...

"Paddling or Trolling" I asked Norma on Wednesday morning. We were anchored near the mooring field at Echo Bay outside of New Rochelle,...

We Eat Really Well on the Boat: Provisioning for Afterglow has become a welcome chore as we move from town to town along the New York...

Just over the (low) bridge from Orchard Beach ("The Riviera of the Bronx") lies City Island, Bronx, New York. With Eastchester Bay to...

After having such a good time in Brooklyn, anchoring off of City Island is a good way for us to relax more, catch up on our blog, and...

When our new sailing friends, Jim and Christine on Midnight Sun, told us about Atlantic Highlands at Sandy Hook, NJ, where they once...