The bowline, again
It is the first knot everyone learns and the one worth tying with cold hands. It holds under load and comes undone when the load is gone.
Harbor Notes
A small notebook about tides, knots and quiet mornings on the water.
Rule of twelfths
The water does not rise evenly. In six hours it moves one, two, three, three, two and one twelfths of its range, so the middle hours are the busy ones.
Reading the morning sky
High thin cloud thickening from the west usually means the wind will change within a day. It is an old rule, and still a useful one.