Ward Cleaveland Memorial Scholarship Cruise

And Suddenly…We Couldn’t See Anything!

By Captain Ray   Published: August, 2014   It happened slightly over a month ago, while I was out sailing with three students. It was just a normal afternoon three-hour practice session. We do them almost every day, and sometimes twice a day. We had come out of the Berkeley Marina a few minutes earlier […]

‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Highlights Emergency Role for Ferries

By Francis CairoPublished: February, 2009  The dramatic ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River on January 15 has highlighted the critical role that water transit can play in emergency response situations. The Miracle on the Hudson may not have been so miraculous without the participation of an armada of commercial ferries […]

Thaddeus’ Ruminations

Prime location to plant a seed By Thaddeus Barsotti Published: January, 2007  My brother is married now and probably would abstain from that performing that act again for various reasons, including the realization that his stomach didn’t have any sunlight and that harvesting watermelon size objects from humans is generally reserved for pregnant women. Nevertheless, […]