Warm water and amazing scenery are just the beginning in this idyllic playground (published March 2016) As we rounded Sarah Point on Malaspina Peninsula and made […]
Beauty Abounds in Desolation Sound
Fiji: Flirting with the Date Line
On paper, crossing the Pacific in one season seemed like a perfectly good plan. But once there, we were like kids in a candy store: everything […]
USA’s National Sailing Hall of Fame Announces 2016 Inductees
The National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHOF) today announced the nine people who will make up its 2016 class of inductees. The 2016 inductees are America’s […]
North Sea, Netherlands: The Ocean Cleanup Unveils First Prototype
The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, today unveiled its North Sea prototype. When installed later this week, […]
Creative Anchoring Makes for Good Sleeping
(published February 2016) Wind whipped through Portland Island, B.C.’s tall, old growth forest as we hiked away from the anchorage towards the island’s interior. In the […]
Merchant Ship Rescues Survivors from Damaged Yacht
Five crew members were sailing the multi-million dollar yacht Platino from Auckland to Fiji on Monday when foul weather tore down the boat’s rigging, killing one […]
Pocket Protectors: Delorme & SPOT
These small satellite communications devices can track your progress, send and receive short messages and send an SOS (published February 2016) Pocket-sized satellite communications devices have […]
Long Range Communications
When you are off the grid long range communication gets more difficult. Sometimes the best solutions are different than you think they might be. Let’s go […]
No Fear, The Electronics of Getting Rescued
Sometimes all the preparation of getting ready to go cruising makes my head hurt but never more so than when it came time to replace/upgrade our […]
This Globetrotter Hen Is Sailing Around The World With Her Human
Meet Monique, a hen, who is currently on a global adventure with her human Guirec Soudée. The travel tales of these two sailors have now gone […]