We start our tale with the Ocean View Hotel, an island staple where the cool kids of their eras stayed on visits to the Block. Famously gone, the hotel burned beyond repair in the second half of the sixties. It had stood for close to a hundred years. But the story of the Ocean View Hotel isn’t as interesting as the story of its founder and owner. No—this guy was all over the place in the best way possible.
We talked about this series for a bit before deciding to go ahead with it. “Not everyone going to Block Island needs to know how to dock a boat,” we said. “That’s what we’re here for, after all! We’re aces at that.” So, we narrowed our list of important Sailor Tips down to things you, our riders, and we, the sailors, could use on or off the water.
Nothing better than a hot cup of coffee on a freezing cold morning, right? WRONG. Very wrong. Coffee’s great. Greater than great, in fact. It helped the young United States through the Revolutionary War. It’s tangentially the reason we had that whole Enlightenment thing in Europe during the 1700s. We love it. The whole world loves it—the only thing humans consume more of is water. But, remember—it takes water to make coffee!
