Twenty three boats and a hundred intrepid cruisers joined the Salty Dawg Rally to Cuba (published May 2017) Landing in Cuba is like stepping off a […]
Cuba Today
Cruising Earth’s Edge, Spitsbergen to Iceland
John and Amanda Neal, aboard their Hallberg Rassy 46, Mahina Tiare, take their expedition crew on a true high latitude adventure on the 1,500-mile cruise from […]
Galley Guide
The pressure cooker, a galley essential? (published May 2017) When we bought Kate I had both boating experience and cooking skills, but had never needed to […]
Discovering Denmark by Tri
A late spring cruise aboard a new Dragonfly 28 took the author and his family on an adventure in and around Denmark’s ‘South Sea’ (published fall […]
Performance Propellers
(published April 2017) What does an extra knot of boat speed mean under sail? On a day run of 30 miles, it will cut almost an […]
Building a Better Cruising Sail
(published April 2017) It’s time for our semi-annual review of sail construction and material options. While most of this is well documented, an overview is handy […]
SV Honeymoon Forever
Fitting out for a multi-year cruise (published April 2017) My dream of cruising long term actually started as a child standing on the south shore of […]
The Right Way to Cruise
(published March 2017) We were in the final days of preparing to depart for our voyage south from California, where we purchased Kate, when we met […]
AUGUST 2017
20 Cruising Life Landfall The rhythms of daily life change after being at sea for three weeks by Heather Francis 24 World Cruising Diving Bonaire and […]
Distress Signaling for Cruisers
Here are the modern tools that sailors use to signal distress at sea (published February 2017) Last November, when the 57-foot cruising catamaran Leopard flipped over […]