It’s an age-old question: what to do about age? Ron Breault found one answer: Write a book. And that is the backstory of his new book, “Voyaging with Marionette.”
What makes “Voyaging with Marionette” a story for the shoreline is that Breault, along with his two grown children Nicole and Michael, are familiar figures in the local sailing world.
What’s more, Breault’s boat, Marionette, a Dolphin 24, has a local story. Breault bought the boat in 1995 when he saw it under a blue tarpaulin in the parking lot of the Connecticut River Museum in Essex.
The book project began in Breault’s mind when he read an article by maritime author John Rousmaniere about how he had decided that in his mid-70s going out on the foredeck of a sailboat in a strong wind was no longer wise. Breault, also in his mid-70s, thought that advice should apply to him as well and he certainly shouldn’t be sailing singlehanded any more.
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Shades of Shackleton on the Connecticut River
From left, Bob Ten Eyck and Curt Andersen, work their way along Connecticut RiverþÄôs frozen shore near Lyme on Sunday. Behind them are Tom Fagin (partially hidden), Declan Nowak and Phil Warner. (Steve Fagin)
Tom Fagin steers around a snow-covered floe. (Steve Fagin)
A potential launch site off Pilgrim Landing Road in Old Lyme was deemed too icy. (Steve Fagin)
A winter paddler must bundle up. (Steve Fagin)
Published February 25. 2021 1:30PM By
Steve Fagin
The crunch of shattering ice reverberated through frigid air Sunday morning as my son Tom and I bashed our paddles and kayaks repeatedly against a frozen Connecticut River in Old Saybrook.