Welcome to the 2019 Boating Season on Buzzards Bay and beyond! Since I’m in southern California and most of you aren’t boating yet, things will be pretty quiet around here til March […]
Boat Shows and The Quest for The Perfect Day!
Our Dream Boat Comes In; Vigilant (2017 Back Cove 41)
In June of 2016, we were enjoying our first overnight weekend with Gail and Rudy. We were at the Newport Yachting Center (also for the first time), and out to breakfast at […]
Tenacity (2015 Back Cove Downeast 37)
In the immortal words of Roy Scheider in Jaws – “I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat”… By 2014, Mean Kitty was getting a little long in the tooth. She was […]
The Mean Kitty Hyrdrasports 3300CC – Twin 300 HP ETECs
We moved into our new house in Mattapoisett in June of 2007. We were enjoying the post 9/11 stock market boom and as I said, the Whaler was becoming highly unreliable. I […]
Does Anyone Know Where The Love Of God Goes When the Waves Turn The Minutes to Hours?
The 26′ Boston Whaler Outrage Twin 200 HP Mercury Optimax (My First Boat) Susan, Kitten, and me at Kingman Marine. 2000 was a very good year for the Horne Family. We were […]
The Banana Split – C&C 25
By 1978, the company my father worked for since the 1950’s had finally gone public. With “a little change in his pocket”, and old knees that were growing weary of climbing into […]
The Sunfish – How I Learned to Sail…
Having been born in Nova Scotia, my father Clyde always loved sailing. In the 60’s, he rented a Bullseye for a few weeks and also a Corinthian. Both were classic sloops capable […]
Our Thunderbird – The Ute was a hoot!
In the mid 1960’s I convinced Clyde to buy a bigger boat. I remember driving around with him looking at used Thompsons, but I think he knew they were lake boats that […]
Boston Yacht Sales
Boston Yacht Sales Joyce Richards and Mike Myers I think I first encountered BYS in 2008 when I was shopping for The Mean Kitty. I had exchanged a few emails with some […]