Cruising Crews Aid a Shipwrecked Sailor in the San Blas Islands
September 11, 2015
The day started like any other: the sun shining through my hatch while I tried to ignore it. When I heard someone start the coffee,
The day started like any other: the sun shining through my hatch while I tried to ignore it. When I heard someone start the coffee,
When we first decided to try out sail camping, we already knew how to sail and camp. However, there remained the question of a boat
After wakingto a pink and blue West Florida sunrise, I reach for my backpacking stove and coffee mug and make some fresh coffee. Sitting inside
I had planned a six-day family cruise with my wife and two daughters on Dreamer, our new Catalina 36 Mark II. This was the fourth sailboat
Like many sailors, my wife, Cristina, and I cruise our local waters on the Chesapeake every chance we get. Like many sailors we have also
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We are slicing south through the Bahamas on a warm March day, sailing on a delicious close reach flying a full mainsail, a staysail and
The racing world is mourning the loss of two fine sailors in separate incidents on opposite sides of the globe. In late June Swiss offshore
It was 1000 and already the temperature was 80 degrees. There was no wind, and Banderas Bay looked like a glass lake. My husband, Jay,
Have you ever noticed how when something goes wrong on a boat, you often must contort and maneuver your body into inaccessible cramped places to
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Joseph Conrad once wrote, “The sea never changes.” And while this may or not be true, something most definitely not open for debate is the
If you can sell more than 150 catamarans off-plan before the resin has even hit the fiberglass, you must be doing something right. Despite costing
It’s a typical humid, southern Chesapeake Bay summer day when I show up on the doorstep of Latell & Ailsworth Sailmakers in the one-stoplight, one-lane-roadway,
Ever since making the controversial decision to hold the next America’s Cup in Barcelona, Spain, instead of in home waters, Defender Emirates Team New Zealand
I first heard about Capt. Liz Gillooly in 2016 from my cousin while working three jobs in our shared hometown on the North Fork of
