The author in the small, but functional, cabin of his Cape Dory 25, Vesper. Photo courtesy David Roper
August 2024
By David Roper
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones cause it to go astray.
– Leonardo da Vinci
This February, when I bought Vesper, a 43-year-old Cape Dory 25, I thought I would miss many of the “conveniences” that were on my “big” boat, which I sold this winter. But something happened. I began to relish her littleness, and what went with it...