Adventures on the Water

Stories from the high and low seas. Add yours!

Sailish 100
July 24, 2025

Sailish 100

Anarchy | Sea chicken (Ben Hedquist)

Map of Exciting sail surfing the chop on the Cooper River
March 22, 2025

Exciting sail surfing the chop on the Cooper River

Llama | Mikesboat (Jim Michalak)

My buddy and I decided to try a new way of getting LLAMA—my Michalak Mikesboat—onto the water. The closest ramp to my house sits just upriver from a very low railroad trestle on the way to the Cooper ...

Map of First sail on my junk Mikesboat LLAMA
May 13, 2024

First sail on my junk Mikesboat LLAMA

Llama | Mikesboat (Jim Michalak)

Sailing LLAMA—a junk-rigged Mikesboat—to Capers Island with five friends aboard was the kind of outing that tells you immediately what a boat is made of. I’d always been curious about Mikesboat on pap...