Are You Worth Your Salt?
With so many new boaters on the water this past summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there was no shortage of vessels plying the waters of my usual serene haunts in the river, bay and ocean near my home in New Jersey. Word on the street was boat sales were booming as people who were stuck at home decided to trade summer travel plans for keys to new boats, possibly encouraged by a story in the New York Times last July that said driving a boat was easy and anyone could do it. Well, not so much.
One morning I couldn’t back out of
