Experience: A Badly Snagged Prop in Haiti
April 29, 2021
When a winter norther blows through the Bahamas, the northeast trades can reach gale force as they funnel through the Windward Passage between Cuba and
When a winter norther blows through the Bahamas, the northeast trades can reach gale force as they funnel through the Windward Passage between Cuba and
Panama is truly the crossroads of the world, bridging the North and South American continents, with the Caribbean and Europe to the east and Asia
My husband, Neil, and I had left Mexico in March on board Distant Drummer, our Liberty 458 sloop, with a plan to spend the rest
We had left San Diego in early November and spent a month sailing down the west coast of Baja California on board Distant Drummer, our
Each November, cruising boats start leaving California for “a winter of fun in the sun down Mexico way.” And having spent the summer and autumn
The winter of 2016-17 was one of the coldest on record in southern British Columbia. In June 2016 we had sailed across from Hawaii to
An artfully unconventional build from Slovenia is designed for true bluewater sailors.
Alli Bell and her crew will receive the King Kalakaua trophy.
Bryon Ehrhart’s Juan K-designed 88-footer, Lucky, has won the Barn Door Trophy.
Without challenges we wither, and sailing serves them up regularly, making it the supreme teacher.
Another fuel pump failure leads to an engine rebuild, this time on the hook.
The fleet couldn’t have wished for better conditions at the start of the 363-mile ocean race.
As the first competitors eye their approach Hawaii, Stan Honey talks strategy.
Living champagne dreams on a Top Ramen budget — and how you can do it too.
Simrad has upgraded their line of chartplotters with the NSS 4, a new model designed with going off soundings in mind.
Nearing the halfway mark of Falken’s passage between the Galápagos and Marquesas
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