A cruising guide to Saint Barth  (published November 2016) You have the freedom to call it Saint Barthelemy, Saint Barth, or St. Barts. After all the […]

A sailing route less traveled by made all the difference  (published September 2016) We continued our beat to windward, leaving Isla Saona, Dominican Republic for Puerto […]

Here began our tour of the contrasts of the Dominican Republic as we cruised from small fishing villages to bustling cities  (published August 2016) Departing Ile […]

The decision to switch from a symmetrical spinnaker to a Parasailor proved to be the right one for this cruising couple aboard their Pearson 424  (published […]

Deciding the best possible route to leave the Bahamas  (published May 2016) As we proceeded south through the Bahamas, we made the inevitable stopover in George […]

December of 2015 and the first week of January 2016 will live in the weather records, history books, ships’ logs and personal diaries for the unusual […]

A guide to everything you should know about visual communication  (published March 2016) From our boat anchored alone between cities off the Indian River on July […]

Sometimes all the preparation of getting ready to go cruising makes my head hurt but never more so than when it came time to replace/upgrade our […]

Over the last few years Jill, my wife, and I have read lots of stories of cruisers losing their rigs to one or another failure in […]

Stronger deck handles and no varnishing  (published September 2015) A wise sailor once said to me, “sand or sail”.  All his topside teak was unvarnished, gray, […]