Captain’s Log

BWS Turns 20| It is hard to believe that 20 years have passed since Rosie and I, with the help of our two sons Si and […]

Captain’s Log November 2015 Every fall, on both coasts of the U.S. and Canada and in Europe, sailors step onto their cruising boats, let loose the […]

Beginnings | Every fall, on both coasts of the U.S. and Canada and in Europe, sailors step onto their cruising boats, let loose the docking lines […]

Fitting Out Essentials | When we bought Lime’n five years ago, our intent was to sail the boat south to the Bahamas and Caribbean from Newport […]

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 […]

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 […]

CUBA LIBRE? With the announcement last winter that the U.S. and Cuba were going to start normalizing the relationship between the two countries, all of us […]

10 PHASES OF PASSAGEMAKING This summer will mark 20 years since Rosie and I and our boys sailed back into Newport R.I. to complete a five […]

KIDS AND SAILING One of the highlights of our five-year cruise around the world with our two sons Si and Tim happened one night on the […]

KEEP IT SIMPLE I don’t know about you, but I can’t work on my cars’ engines anymore. I open the hood and all I recognize are […]