Lighthouses editor
Mira Iyer studied lighthouse heritage at the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage. She edits Sea Marker's Lighthouses section.
Beats
Weather
A retired Naval Academy sailing coach in Annapolis has spent thirty years teaching midshipmen to read summer thunderheads on the Chesapeake. The grammar she teaches is older than radar.
Coastal Towns
On the north coast of Iceland's Snaefellsnes peninsula, a small harbour town begins its summer in earnest with the return of the puffins to the Breidafjordur islands.
Coastal Towns
After a five-week refit shutdown of the MV Loch Frisa, Mull's largest town counts up what the ferry pause cost and what it taught.
Lighthouses
In a small room above the gift shop at Portland Head Light, Esme Carriere unpacks a wooden crate from Birmingham, England, containing fourteen replacement prismatic elements.
Tides
Sunny-day flooding has tripled in the historic district since 2000. A spring visit during a coefficient 92 tide at the Battery.
Tides
A May morning at Ship Harbor, with a thermos and a tide table. The pools are cold, the crowds are gone, and the periwinkles do not care either way.
Knots & Lines
Mira Iyer spent a weekend with a small-craft instructor in Cochin Harbour learning the trade-name skills that working sailors call simply ropework.
Shipping
At Salalah in Oman, a port where one in three calls produces no shore leave at all, the ship chandlers and SIM-card sellers have learned to bring the town to the gangway.
Coastal Towns
The Scillonian III makes its last run of the season on the eighth of November. Until then, Penzance keeps something between summer's rhythm and the long Cornish winter that follows.
Lighthouses
The wind came up the gut at 3:14 a.m. on April 22, and the keeper's house at Pemaquid Point held against it the way it has held against eighty-two prior April storms.