50 Years and Counting
Dear Editors,
Congratulations on 50 years of publishing! I was on my way to the British Virgin Islands in 1975, as master, after God, of a very low-reality-quotient scheme to buy the Alden schooner TIKI. The father of one of my crew said, “Buying a big old wooden boat, eh? Read this,” and passed across a magazine turned out in Maine by a guy whose office phone was nailed to a tree at the end of the driveway.
“Huzzah,” I said. “Someone besides John Gardner in National Fisherman is writing about boats. I’ll give a read….”
So here we are, many miles under the keels, many bronze screws driven, many gallons of epoxy and red lead smeared, with WoodenBoat a valued and trusted companion along the way.