How to strike a balance between cruising and working (published June 2013) Today’s office is open-air with yellow and orange pillars, a red stone floor and […]
Balance Pose
Unleashing Women’s Potential
Thinking beyond “pink and blue” boundaries leads to smoother sailing (published December 2012) “You’ve got to let me put a few holes in the boat,” I […]
Maintaining a Weather Eye
Weather forecasts can be right or wrong, but the sooner you can recognize the difference, the sooner you can take appropriate action (published July 2015) A […]
Weather Routing for Faster Passages
Working with professionals who really understand oceanic weather systems and how sailboats behave at sea makes passagemaking faster, safer and more fun (pubished July 2015) We […]
A Passage for the Birds
Tenaya shares the seas with flying friends while heading from PNG to Palau (published February 2015) Maybe the sky knows this is our last night in […]
Hawaii by Sextant
How to learn and practice celestial navigation using data from a 2,800 mile ocean passage (published May 2014) Most blue water sailors think about learning celestial […]
Landfall Bermuda
Sailing to Bermuda isn’t always the easiest passage, and stopping there can have surprises of its own (published November 2013) The delivery out of the BVI […]
Snowbird Migrations
The leaves turn color and drop. The Canada Geese head south. The warm allure of the tropics beckons. But getting there may or may not be […]
It’s Time for Your Watch
There are as many ways to parse time as there are readers of this article, but there is more to a watch schedule than time (published […]
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 […]