Fitting out for a multi-year cruise (published April 2017) My dream of cruising long term actually started as a child standing on the south shore of […]
SV Honeymoon Forever
Ten Qualities of a Long Term Cruiser
Do you have what it takes to sail into the sunset? (published April 2017) A cruiser is someone who sails for pleasure without an exact destination, […]
Honing Your Cruising Senses
(published March 2017) Laying in my bunk, I could hear and feel the wind changing. A soft harmonic wind blew through the rigging and I listened […]
Dufour Grand Large 460
The French builder dials in the sweet spot with their new, three-cabin ultra-modern family cruiser, complete with built-in grill (published March 2017) Good ideas are catching. […]
Family Charter Downeast
Experienced dinghy sailors take a week off to explore the Maine coast and the wonders of Penobscot Bay (published March 2017) My family has sailed a […]
Sailing Blue Nun
Circumnavigators downsize to a smaller cruising boat and find themselves asking , “when is small too small?” (published March 2017) Looking back, Frenchman Bay in Downeast […]
The Right Way to Cruise
(published March 2017) We were in the final days of preparing to depart for our voyage south from California, where we purchased Kate, when we met […]
Girls Gone Sailing in the Abacos
The Abaco chain in the northern Bahamas offers lots of beautiful harbors and plenty of flat-water sailing (published March 2017) Sometimes when planning a charter you […]
Victoria to San Diego
Mahina Tiare‘s crew settles in for a journey south along the U.S. Pacific coast (published February 2017) March 23, 0115 hrs, 44.53 N, 124.38 W, Log: […]
Risk Management
A seasoned offshore sailor and business consultant takes a systematic approach to managing risk for those heading off passagemaking (published February 2017) November is not the […]