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A Night Approach to Cape Horn

In October of 2018, Randall Reeves departed for a second attempt at what he called his “Figure 8 Voyage,” a solo circumnavigation of both the

Dolphins to the Rescue

We were sailing in the Indian Ocean from the Seychelles Islands to Madagascar on my brother’s plywood-built 40ft trimaran, Romany Road, a 1,000-mile voyage. It

Prepping for a Transatlantic

Growing up on the coast of northern England, I dreamed about crossing oceans on my own boat. Like most of us, though, education, a family

A Half-century of Cruising with SAIL

The following story is part of SAIL magazine’s recent 50th-anniversary coverage. For more, click here. I cannot say I have been reading SAIL magazine since the very

Book Review: Sailing Into Oblivion

Sailing Into Oblivion by Jerome Rand $15.99, available through Amazon As refreshing and inspiring as Jerome Rand’s 2017-18 solo-circumnavigation may have been, his account of the

50 Years of SAIL

Back in early 1970, Bernie Goldhirsh and the recently founded “Institute for the Advancement of Sailing,” publisher of an annual sailboat and gear guide, launched

Cruising: The Liveaboard Life

Rare, indeed, is the sailor who has not at one point in his or her life dreamed of shrugging off the bonds of the landlubber’s

Everyone should practice MOB 
maneuvers, but 
preventing it in the first place comes down to mindset. Photo by A. Gray

At the Helm: Stay on the Boat

The risk of going overboard—and how you brief it—depends entirely on context. Mia and I were at a wedding recently in England. The bride and

It was a roundabout path that led the author to Indigo. Photo by Zuzana Prochazka

Boat Shopping

There’s no straight path to boat ownership. Charter in the meantime. 

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