Herb Payson Reminisces About Sailing to Tuamotus
In 1980, long-time SAIL magazine contributor Herb Payson published the book Blown Away, a kind of compilation of the adventures he and his wife, Nancy,
In 1980, long-time SAIL magazine contributor Herb Payson published the book Blown Away, a kind of compilation of the adventures he and his wife, Nancy,
Cruising guide authors Mark and Diana Doyle, co-leaders of the upcoming SAIL Magazine Snowbird Rally, take us on an eight-part tour of the Intracoastal Waterway.
Paradise lies just west of ICW mile marker 173 on the Neuse River in North Carolina, about a mile up Broad Creek. It’s not hard to find, but you do have to look for it. Once you get there, you’ll agree. River Dunes is paradise.
Let’s not kid ourselves—the ICW transit can be a long, lonely and sometimes daunting slog. Commercial traffic, strong currents, shifting shoal spots and lifting bridges—help!
SAIL’s 2014 Snowbird Rally down the Intracoastal Waterway was such a success that we’ve decided to do it again
Of all the watering holes frequented by sailors, few approach the legendary status of Peter’s Café Sport in Horta, on the island of Faial in the Azores archipelago. Café Sport has given succour to legions of thirsty sailors for many decades.
It would be easy to say that President Obama’s move to normalize relations with Cuba is what brought us there in our Island Packet 38.
The expedition yacht Seal lies at anchor in a shallow bay on Isla Navarino, on the Chilean side of the Beagle Channel, while its crew of charter guests explores an isolated homestead.
You don’t need a passport to enjoy a spectacular sailing vacation. Home is where the boat is…
This is the beginning of one of the country’s—no, the world’s—great cruising grounds, stretching from the tip of Long Island Sound all the way up the Maine coast to the Bay of Fundy.

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

Today we’re celebrating the birthday of one of history’s greatest yachtswomen.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Coneys Marine on Long Island has always counted on the power of family.

Bad puns aside, why do cats and sailing go so well together? It’s brain science.

Which modern synonym for “complain” originally was used to describe a ship that tended to round up into the wind due to a bad design

As the second fleet of starters get under way, a quick look at the tracker and the prep that goes into a race of over 2,000 open ocean miles.

Doubting his choices one chilly day, a sailor wonders whether he’ll have to make changes.

Catching and prepping your own dinner while underway is one of those one of a kind cruiser experiences. The process gets a whole lot better with the right gear.

In her first Marion-Bermuda Race as skipper of a Navy 44, Nancy Rhodes and her team of U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen aboard Integrity stuck to their strategy—even when things looked grim—and walked away with bragging rights and an armful of silver.