Gaining experience and learning from the experts while enjoying a 850-mile sail aboard Mahina Tiare III (a photo essay) (published November/December 2017) The first of July […]
Lessons and Tales From the Cockpit
Time After Time
A concept that is both fixed and fluid aboard a cruising sailboat (published November/December 2017) When I came on deck at 11 p.m. it was still […]
Surviving Irma in Tortola: Todd Duff’s First Person Account
Cruising sailor, yacht broker, surveyor and author Todd Duff was there and so was the Amel 53 Ocean Life that he used to live aboard (published […]
Solar Survival
Bright ideas to keep you going in any situation (published Nov/Dec 2017) Watching the drama unfold as hurricane after hurricane battered the Caribbean and Atlantic this […]
Stop and Go
Making tough decisions to keep the cruising life afloat (published October 2017) Sitting on a pebble beach, I poked our fire with a stick while Jill […]
Essential Upgrades to an Offshore Cruising Boat
Preparation is the key to happy, safe cruising in a well fitted out cruising boat (published October 2017) When you are getting a boat ready for […]
Ten Years After
What Worked, What Didn’t (published October 2017) After 10 years of cruising, we aren’t going home any time soon. We are on our way across the […]
Black Sands, Black Magic
Vanuatu by Sail (published October 2017) Since we left Panama and started sailing west across the Pacific it has felt like we were twenty years too […]
Sailing Sabbatical
Why I decided to sail around the world after college graduation (published October 2017) Senior year of college is a poignant time, filled with nostalgia and […]
What’s In Your Ditch Bag?
(published October 2017) Imagine that your worst nightmare has come true; a catastrophic equipment failure, irreparable damage due to a collision at sea or human error […]