bluewater cruising

First sea trials aboard hull number one of a rockin’ new flagship  (published September 2016) It’s not often that I get the scoop on a new […]

Picking a favorable weather window from the east coast of the United States to the Virgin Islands  (published April 2016) The hardest part about the passage […]

Funny how the beginning and end of a voyage can parallel each other, even when they’re three years and thousands of miles apart  (published April 2016) […]

When you get the chance to visit the San Blas Islands, you take it. I accepted a position as first mate aboard the Solitaria, a 39 […]

Over the years, and much experimentation, I have adopted two regular galley activities that not only keep meals interesting but, most importantly, give our diets a […]

(published March 2016) Standing at the chart table, my buddy Will and I poured over charts of the Northwest coast from Alaska to Oregon. Large and […]

The new Philippe Briand design is a family cruiser with passagemaking capabilities  (published March 2016) The first thing you notice about the new Jeanneau 54 as […]

For many years the only choice sailors had for fabric and engineering for their sails was cross-cut Dacron sails and for many years cross-cut Dacron sails […]

Before we sailed through the Havannah Pass and into the lagoon that surrounds “La Grande Terre” we’d heard very little about New Caledonia. The few people […]

The crew of Touche continues to explore the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean  (published February 2016) After we felt we had explored Bell Sound (even […]