living aboard

The culture shock of life ashore  (published August 2017) Stepping from the marina parking lot onto the sidewalk, cars rushed by in a flash and I […]

Achieving a cruising dream  (published June/July 2017) With our bright blue spinnaker poled out and full of wind, we sailed across the border between British Columbia […]

(published May 2017) When I overheard Porter, our newly minted four-year-old, say, “Mom, I love Yahtzee” while being tucked into bed for the night, I couldn’t […]

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, […]

We all want to share our onboard adventures with family and friends. Emails, photos and blogs are a great way to stay connected but can often […]

A sailing route less traveled by made all the difference  (published September 2016) We continued our beat to windward, leaving Isla Saona, Dominican Republic for Puerto […]

Holidays Onboard  (published Dec/Jan 2016-17) Perhaps one of the most difficult things about being a voyaging sailor is being away from friends and family for long […]

Jeanne Socrates has sailed enough ocean miles, 160,000, to circumnavigate the world seven times. Now she wants to establish a new record. Socrates has already been recognized […]

“Freedom.” That is how Victoria Fine describes her life.In April, Fine left a big job at Slate to launch her own business, Finally, a growth hacking company […]

Safety at Sea instructor Paul Cunningham helps us to understand the differences between inflatable PFDs, and the pros and cons of manual and auto inflate models. […]