Boats and Boating

June 23, 2022

A Gay Boat Party Returns In the Wake of the ‘Demon Twink'

A year after a “demon twink” earned them outsize attention, the D.J. Ty Sunderland’s “Gayflower” parties kicked off a new season with a Spice Girls-themed event. […]
March 19, 2021

A Home Away From the Virus, However You Can Find It

Whether hitting the road or sailing out to sea, restless families are packing up and ‘slow traveling’ to new destinations. Last June, as Americans began to […]
September 23, 2020

Dive In, KIds! Some Are Home-Schooling on Boats

Two years ago, Alison and Luke Williams bought a 44-foot monohull Moody Blue with the dream of sailing around the world with their three children. But […]
April 18, 2020

The Seas as the Ultimate Coronavirus Isolation? Not. So. Fast.

Simon and Carla Fowler are anchored in their catamaran about 650 feet off a deserted beach in the Bahamas, and they have a message for anyone […]
October 22, 2019

Ahoy There, Mommy! Family Sails Around World on YouTube

NEWPORT, R.I. — They met in Ios, Greece: locking eyes across the town square, both in their 20s then. (She had noticed his distinctive mustache.) Elayna […]
September 28, 2017

Can the Yeti Unite America?

In a country where we can’t seem to agree on anything, one opinion has lately reached a broad consensus across diverse groups of people: Yeti is […]
November 11, 2016

Vows: Love Sets Sail, Come Rain or Come Shine

Vows By LOUISE RAFKIN To fall in love with a sailor is to court a broken heart. But in 2009, when Lauren Sloss spied Alex Kleeman […]