Cap'n Fatty
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April 26, 2013Sea Siren: the Ultimate Liveaboard MotherA young Cap’n Fatty and his mother, Marie Goodlander, the Sea Siren, were right at home aboard their schooner Elizabeth. At 94, Marie proves she still can handle the helm when she joins Fatty and Carolyn for a sail aboard their new boat, Ganesh.
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March 22, 2013A Chat with Sailing Legend Paul JohnsonBack in the Lesser Antilles, Fatty hails an old friend.
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January 8, 2013How Not to Install a Self-Steering WindvaneMonitoring One’s Progress Toward the Loony Bin: On a quest for self-steerage, our intrepid do-it-yourselfers attempt the impossible in the most unfeasible manner. On Watch from the December 2012 issue of Cruising World.
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October 26, 2012When the Wrong Sail is the Right SailCall it fate, karma, or kismet. Call it whatever you like, but some encounters, and the sails that turn up with them, are meant to be. From our October 2012 issue.
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September 24, 2012Books on Kindle: Boat Dollars FoundA free-WiFi discovery in Yap kindles a writer’s windfall of sorts, and that, in turn, launches the search for The Boat. On Watch from our September 2012 issue.
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August 12, 2011The Recent Hibernation and Rebirth of WildcardFatty tells a winter's tale--well, many of them, really--about an off-season spent mainly in a mostly empty marina in Turkey's Antalya province. On Watch from our August 2011 issue.
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May 10, 2011It All Went So WrongHaving sailed the fraught waters of the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden just months before the crew of the U.S.-flagged Quest, the Cap'n reflects on pirates, murder, and good cruising folk.
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April 26, 2011Called by Optis at an Early AgeLong before world cruising on Wild Card, Fatty got his start in sailing in just the way that many kids do.
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March 10, 2011Winter StudiesThe Cap’n enjoys a hands-on Euro sensitivity-training course, of sorts.
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Electronic Updates
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