They call them pleasure boats and that’s where the problems begin. The vacationers board, in the hopes of a good time, aware of Archimedes’ Principle completely unaware of Archimedes’ footnote: “any body that floats in a fluid can stop floating…

A tireless summer companion, the frisbee has all the disadvantages of the boomerang and none of its virtues. It is a disc the size of a flying pancake, tossed into the air at the beach, and left at the mercy…

This is the name given to the operation by which four million stressed-out, scorched, bottled-up, dark-suited citizens decide to become stressed-out, scorched, bottled-up, shorts- and vest-wearing citizens with an inflatable crocodile on the roof of their car. Preparations These days…