Every fall, somebody on the river asks the same question: is the Annapolis show worth the trip? This year there’s a one-word answer floating at the end of Ego Alley: Askari. The Askari 65, an aluminum explorer cruiser with a range figure that reads like a typo (see below!), isContinue Reading
If you spent any part of this summer walking into a West Marine and finding bare shelves and a “liquidation sale” vibe, you weren’t imagining things. The company, which is the closest thing boating has to a national hardware store, filed for Chapter 11 back on May 17, buried underContinue Reading
Holiday Island party has come and gone, the big raft-ups are mostly in the rearview, and the Potomac just flipped from “event season” to “don’t do anything dumb” season. That doesn’t mean the river’s closed, it just means the easy excuses are gone. No fireworks barge to blame for theContinue Reading