Red Sky at Night Sailor’s Delight

Sail Martha’s Vineyard launches another season of its winter dinner series at the Black Dog Tavern in Vineyard Haven on Wednesday, Jan. 26, with a program featuring the Island’s own globetrotting photographer, writer and sailor, Sam Low.

Mr. Low will give an illustrated talk on Polynesian navigation and seafaring. He has sailed aboard Hokule’a, the famous full-scale replica of a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe — the vessel best known for her 1976 voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti and back, guided only by traditional Polynesian wayfinding techniques of celestial navigation.

Mr. Low, who holds degrees from Yale and Harvard, is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and enjoyed a long and productive career as a producer, director and writer for public television and public radio. He has won numerous awards for his photography and has published articles in Sailing and Wooden Boat magazines, Cruising World, the Boston Globe, and many others, including the Vineyard Gazette. He is currently working on two books, one of them on the subject of his Black Dog program.

The program on Jan. 26 begins at 6 p.m., and admission is $20. For more information and reservations, call the Sail MV office at 508-696-7644.