Like a sparkling jewel pendant, the Andaman and Nicobar islands angle below Burma in a turquoise sea, studded with coral reefs, rich with sea creatures. But surprisingly this archipelago of some 570 islands, measuring 700 kilometers from north to south, does not belong to Burma, but to India far to the west.For hundreds of years the Malays, the Chinese, and even Marco Polo visited these
On day two of my San Francisco Bay cruise I proved an age-old principle: As soon as you go home, you fall back into the same old roles.I hadn’t really been gone, but I had not in years idled away a succession of days on my home waters with no agenda except to go wherever I wanted, and do whatever seemed like a good idea at the time. What seemed like a good idea today was to sail my nephew,
By Amy UllrichSoutheast Alaska enjoys about 18 hours of daylightat the summer solstice, stretching time so that this12-day cruise at the end of June aboard Maple Leafseems like the activity equivalent of weeks.Nonetheless, my body stays resolutely on its EastCoast schedule; I occasionally fall asleep over my plate indaylight that is still fading at dinnertime and rise with the
The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association now runs a message board of updated information regarding the waterway. We have a link at the bottom of this story. Meanwhile, we have more good news …Are you a racer? A cruiser? Doesn’t matter. If you transit the Eastern seaboard, you probably use the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, and the food news is that the great letter-writing
Cruising Guides to the Texas CoastThe Boater’s Directory, 11th edition, American Gulf Publishing, is “the Texas Gulf Coast’s complete information guide for both the fresh and saltwater boater.” This not only lists all the water-oriented businesses in coastal area, it provides reduced maps “borrowed” from the coastal chart series of the Corps of
By Amy Ullrich “With this big boat and only three persons, you must be a very happy man. And two women!” Bumboat driver Yes, Arthur Beiser is a very happy man. One of the two women is Germaine, his wife of many years; the boat, Ardent Spirit, a 58-foot sloop designed by Bill Dixon and built in 1988 by Moody, is the most recent of a series of four sizable
Plans by Mexico’s tourism agency to develop a string of marinas along both coasts of the wild Baja Peninsula and the mainland opposite have apparently been scaled back in response to protests from environmentalists on both sides of the border. Actual plans are a moving target, but the starting point was an ambitious “nautical ladder,” the Excalera Nautica, of 12 upgraded and 10 large new ports to
After six years away from the sea, Lin Pardey’s return to voyaging was not without adventure.
TeamO has earned the overall 2024 DAME Design Award for its Hi-Lift 150N lifejacket and harness, while Yanmar Marine took home wins in two categories
To answer that unanswerable question, the best is what you make of it.
In Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, sailing, maritime history, and community are uniquely connected.
Sailors involved with a rescue during the Newport Bermuda Race discuss the takeaways, big and small.
Restoring a Thames sailing barge is about far more than preserving maritime history.
What happens when you put a young racing rockstar and a lifelong cruising legend on stage together—and then throw a bunch of questions at them?
Cruising advice and tips from Tom Cunliffe
Starlink is becoming ubiquitous on sailboats,making instant connectivity everywhere a reality. That’s a good thing, right?
This is the column where I hopelessly date myself, and it came to me in the weirdest place—the short passage just beyond the bar at
