Robert Sullivan is an enigma. He is a contributing editor at Vogue...and his most recent book is about rats. To research his book, he, among other things, sat in a New York City alley with night vision goggles on, watching and taking notes on what the rats were doing. The previous month he was attending fashion openings in Paris with Vogue picking up the tab. We sent a description of Bob's activities to David Letterman's website and a couple of months later Dave says, "And now, let's cut to rat boy in the alley with our Late-Night Night-Vision Rat Cam, Bob, are you there?")

     Bob has written a book on the Jersey Meadowlands and another on contemporary Native Americans hunting whales out in the ocean  in a traditionally built dug-out canoe. Bob has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times and, it seems, hundreds of other magazines and newspapers. His writing is funny and smart and quirky. If you get a chance to read something Bob has written, give it a try, we're pretty sure you won't be disappointed.

     When the article on our boats was published in Vogue, Bob called to apologize. He said, "The original article was 3,500 words....they cut it down to 500 words."  We said, "Bob, don't apologize. That you got it in at all is a miracle." This photo shows Bob rowing tandem with his son in the Hudson at the Clearwater Festival.