 In addition to sailing on Long Island Sound, he voyaged north along the Canadian coast, south to Bermuda, and even across the Atlantic several times with a small crew of family and friends.He and his wife had sailboats (Hekla 1 and 2) and an outboard-motor utility boat known as "Sally's Baage" (the spelling presumably a comment on her Maine accent), which he had built himself.Chris Anfinsen, Richards's friend and his colleague as editors of Advances in Protein Chemistry and who recommended the Carlsberg Lab to him, was also an avid sailor, and they sometimes joined forces.