Having made the passage from Newport to the Caribbean dozens of times, the author skippers a big Swan in the NARC one last time and reflects […]
One More Last Time
Bahama Bound or Bust
A hurried finish to a refit, a new captain and mate, an owner who wanted his catamaran out of New England in late November and in […]
Passages South
How to plan a fall passage from the East Coast to the tropics (published September 2016) Several falls ago, I found myself aboard Peter Johnstone’s 68-foot […]
Integrated Nav Systems for Passagemaking
Some 350 boats sailed in last fall’s rallies and most of them used advanced navigation and routing systems (published January 2016) Last November, I was lucky […]
Island Bound
Heading to the Caribbean from the East Coast always incurs the bitter and sweet reality of a Gulf Stream crossing. It will certainly have elements of […]
Gulf Stream Gallop
The mighty stream showed its many moods on the passage from the Bahamas to Newport, R.I. (published July 2013) The afternoon we got away from West […]
No Small Feat
Crossing the Gulf Stream in a pocket cruiser (published July 2012) Scrambling out of the V-berth, I studied the NEXRAD radar images on the chartplotter. I […]
Bermuda and Beyond
Getting from the East Coast ato Bermuda can present a road full of potholes It’s another Bermuda Race year. That, however, is just one of the […]