By CaptaIn Ray Published: July, 2012 In last July’s column, I talked about the SS Jeremiah O’Brien. She’s a fully restored World War II Liberty ship berthed at Pier 45 in San Francisco. Liberty ships were designed at the beginning of World War II to serve as the tractor trailers of the sea. As the […]
Published: June, 2012 On the final day of America’s Cup World Series racing in Venice last month, Loïck Peyron continued to demonstrate the form he had shown during the whole event, leading his Energy Team to a spectacular win. Peyron and his French crew had been perched atop the leaderboard all week, demonstrating an impressive […]
The Best Offense…. By Captain Arthur Samuel Swift Published: June, 2002 Back in my days as a tailback at the Merchant Marine Academy, Coach Cavitation used to say the best defense is a good offense, or was it vice versa…. It seems to me sitting at St. Maggie’s, five short blocks away from a huge […]
