20 Bill Biewenga Inevitability of Problems 24 David Burch The New Inland Navigational Rules 28 World Cruising Cuba Part 3 The Cuba show by Christine Myers […]
CURRENT ISSUE | SEPTEMBER 2015
CAPTAIN’S LOG | SEPTEMBER 2015
Cruising Boats Evolve As we were putting together our annual Preview of New Monohulls for 2016, it struck us just how new and different many of […]
In Mosquito Country
Learning about malaria’s lesser known cousins, Russ River virus and dengue fever (co-written with Abby Young, published January 2013) My wife Rozlynn and I made landfall […]
Sailing Back in Time
Tanna, Vanuatu offers a land of natural wonder and hospitable people (published September 2013) Active volcanoes, dense forests, pristine bays, rugged mountains, cyclones, earthquakes, ash plains, […]
CURRENT ISSUE | AUGUST 2015
14 Biewenga Offshore Heading Back to Sea It’s a familiar theme, but as with all long distance passages, there are, and will be, vast differences 18 […]
BOAT REVIEWS | AZUREE 46
The new, twin-rudder, racer-cruiser from Turkish builder Sirena has roots in the world of Open Class racing by George Day If you follow the Volvo Ocean […]
CAPTAIN’S LOG | AUGUST 2015
Chartering Solves Winter Although I hate to dredge up the memories of the last winter in the Northeast U.S. where we live and publish BWS, I […]
Weather Routing for Faster Passages
Working with professionals who really understand oceanic weather systems and how sailboats behave at sea makes passagemaking faster, safer and more fun (pubished July 2015) We […]
Sail Fast
Increased performance means paying attention to the little things (published June 2105) When cruisers think of performance sailing they often think of yachts racing around buoys […]
CURRENT ISSUE | JULY 2015
20 David Burch at the Helm Maintaining a Weather Eye Weather forecasts can be right or wrong, but the sooner you can recognize the difference, the […]