A Quiet Late-Summer Interlude

Our Travel Columnist ponders some marriage-savers that make for smoother sailing on a small boat.

You may have heard the definition of sailing, as penned by one witty writer, as being: "the slowest, most expensive and uncomfortable way to travel third class." Having been stuck in the boatyard doing repairs through most of our planned vacation time—that covered both the slow and expensive part—Russel and I finally got the boat into the water at the e…