For more than 30 years, the Snipe—a hard-chine 15-footer almost a century old—has been my teacher. I first stepped into one as a newbie 20-something, as a crew for the most demanding skipper I’ve ever ...

Kathleen Tocke is curled up in the bottom of the Snipe, ­thinking she might die, fearful she might not. The supercrew had a bad reaction to seafood, and to say she is not at her best is to put it ...