“Nothing Succeeds Like Excess” (Oscar Wilde) Last fall at the Cannes boat show, the Beneteau Groupe, which is the world’s largest builder of recreational vessels, […]
Excess Catamarans
Fiji: Flirting with the Date Line
On paper, crossing the Pacific in one season seemed like a perfectly good plan. But once there, we were like kids in a candy store: everything […]
North Sea, Netherlands: The Ocean Cleanup Unveils First Prototype
The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, today unveiled its North Sea prototype. When installed later this week, […]
Touche’s Second Expedition to Svalbard
(published December 2015) The light was soft with just a hint of sunset colors, as the sun hung low on the horizon. We had set off […]