Dean Bragonier nimbly hopped down the rocks on the Sengekontacket Pond side of State Beach in the morning sunlight this week. Starting July 11, the 42-year-old will embark on a 27-leg swim around Martha's Vineyard to bring awareness to dyslexia.

I’ve been a delivery skipper since the late 1960s. I’m not a chicken on the water, but other people on boats scare me. I never know if that boat heading at me has a competent crew or is the local ship of fools.

In what is believed to be a June record, 19 boats gathered in Vineyard Haven on June 25 for an overcast Thursday evening Harbor Race.

Five Vineyard swimmers will be competing in the Bay State summer games.