Dear Friend of CHARIAD: This past Saturday, CHARIAD team members went out for our first real sail of the season. This was a training and practice day for experienced and a couple new crew. We all needed the time on the boat and on the water. Spin up, gibe, gibe, gibe, spin down. Tack, tack, tack. That was the drill. We had a middle of the summer spin run [...]

Dear Friend of CHARIAD: I am writing this on a wet Mother’s Day in Boston. Yesterday, we had sun and a brisk NW wind. Yesterday, CHARIAD went sailing for the first time beginning the 2019 season. The 2019 sailing season began with a walk down Cradleskid Lane – the potholed, gravel path into the boat yard in Marblehead. Somehow, during brief periods when rain was not falling including a damp and [...]