Captain’s Log

BERMUDA RECTANGLE Every winter, cruising boats heading from the East Coast to the Caribbean are abandoned in bad weather and their crews rescued by the Coast […]

FIVE MILE RUN We had been in the Exumas, southern Bahamas for a few weeks on our way south to Georgetown and ultimately to Panama and […]

SALTY DAWG RALLY UPDATE The 68 strong fleet in the Fall Salty Dawg Rally are in the B.V.I. and Bahamas and thoroughly enjoying life in the […]

BOATING BUDDY For most of us, cruising is done at our own rhythms and speeds. We go where we want and let the wind and the […]

1000 Miles We had been in Bali, Indonesia for three weeks when it came time to push on for Borneo and then Singapore. We laid out […]

Ships in the Night Over all the years that I have been sailing and making passages offshore, only twice have I ever really had my heart […]

Simple Sailing Pleasures A couple of weekends ago, we and our boat partners headed out from Newport, R.I. for a Sunday afternoon of sailing aboard our […]

Small Boats, Big Dreams With this July issue we once again are happy to offer you a look at the world of small boat cruising and […]

MODERN OFFSHORE BOATS There is a certain group of sailors in any sailing crowd who cling to the old ways and scoff at the new. You […]

SPARE PARTS We put over 60,000 miles on our Mason 43 Clover during an extended circumnavigation and during those years we had to repair just about […]