Blue Water Sailing

Hylas reboots the company with an elegant, raised-saloon, center-cockpit sloop that is a born passagemaker  (published November/December 2018) I’ve had the good fortune to sail Hylas […]

Having made the passage from Newport to the Caribbean dozens of times, the author skippers a big Swan in the NARC one last time and reflects […]

For a change of pace, spend a winter cruising from Florida to the Western Caribbean and back. Here’s how  (published May 2018) For U.S. east coast […]

From Mallorca in Spain’s Balearic Islands, to Morocco and then the Canary Islands, the crew of Mahina Tiare had one adventure after the next  (published March […]

When compared to other tropical cruising paradises, French Polynesia is the least likely to suffer hurricanes or cyclones  (published March 2018) After the devastating 2017 hurricane […]

Hong Kong to the Philippines in the ongoing saga of the new Kraken 66 White Dragon‘s maiden voyage from China to Gibraltar  (published March 2018) We […]

It was 1958 when the Florman family sailed from Florida to Cuba and then Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In Part One, in March BWS, they […]

Part One: Looking back at a family cruise that took them straight into the Cuban revolution  (published March 2018) Flying fish and flying spray were keeping […]

After a lightning strike, we had to replace all of our electronics-it was an eye opening task  (published January/February 2018) A couple of years ago we […]

A hurried finish to a refit, a new captain and mate, an owner who wanted his catamaran out of New England in late November and in […]