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Buffeted by chop, a gusty breeze and wakes from yachts, tour boats, fishing boats, jet-skis and schooners, friends and I bobbed in kayaks off Southwest Point in Jamestown, R.I., and stared across the ...

Under abundantly sunny skies, a powerful ebb tide pulled our fleet of kayaks around Taylor Point in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, and propelled us along the rocky shore off Jamestown. As an elegant...

I’ve come to realize that the adventures readers found most memorable and entertaining were the ones in which I’d gone astray.

If you’re not paying attention, it’s easy to miss Goose Island — or worse, crash into it. The site of several shipwrecks dating back