Sailing from Thailand/Malaysia to South Africa  (published February 2013) Piracy in the northern Indian Ocean has made a dramatic impact on many cruisers’ circumnavigation plans. Scores […]

Smallest of the Mascarenes  (published November 2012) If you ask many North Americans to locate the Mascarene Islands, Rodrigues in particular, you will likely be greeted […]

Sasara Twin Waterfall Bay in Vanuatu’s Banks Islands  (published September 2012) What most Americans know about Vanuatu was probably learned from watching a reality TV show. […]

12º05.58 S, 96º52.86 E  (published July 2012) We had initially planned to sail past Cocos (Keeling) Islands on our voyage from Sunda Strait to Mauritius, until […]

The art and ease of tracking progress with a passage performance worksheet  (published April 2012) With each ocean passage on board Horizon, our Hans Christian 38, […]