Experience: Nightmare Aboard Daydream
August 25, 2021
Pitch black in a narrow, unlit canal, my only two points of reference were a pair of red and green navigational buoys half a mile
Pitch black in a narrow, unlit canal, my only two points of reference were a pair of red and green navigational buoys half a mile
For once the forecast had been correct: 20 knots southwest, with waves 4 to 6 ft. Around 0300, I rolled over in my bunk unable
This past spring my family and I were at anchor aboard our 50ft steel-hulled cutter, Atea, off Bequia, a small island five miles south of
Baking at the helm, watching a newly arrived bird eyeing me suspiciously—as if this was his ship, and I was the one who’d just flown
There is an ocean-sailing science fiction novel I’ve been writing in my head now for some time. It posits a future in which the world’s
Sitting quietly at the bar of a local yacht club, I gaze out over a rambunctious Lake Michigan on a sunny but blustery spring afternoon.
In spite of the fact I came to the sport of sailing alone and untutored, in a boat I acquired on my own, I never
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
The first cruising couple I ever met who was sailing an aluminum boat told me an interesting story. They were French—of course. They’d been anchored
February 2, 2020 was a beautiful Sunday afternoon. The temperature was in the upper 60’s, the wind from the southwest at a steady 8 knots—an
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American sailor Paul Cayard has been named the 2026 recipient of the Magnus Olsson Prize for excellence, sportsmanship, and innovation in sailing. “I was fortunate
