On Friday evening of July 3, American Kelsey Pfendler rowed her 21-foot ocean-going rowboat into Honolulu, Hawaii and completed a remarkable, record-breaking solo adventure across the Pacific Ocean.
The SDSA adopts a new Bermuda strategy to the Caribbean and the Azores. by Bennett Kashdan and Ronna Benjamin. Whether you ...
Over a long sailing career and with a hundred thousand miles under my keel, I am fortunate to be able to say I’ve never been faced with a man overboard emergency. But, that doesn’t mean it won’t ...
Thanks to everyone who took the time to fil out last week’s survey on mainsails. Of those who replied, 68% have standard slab-reefing mains, 24% have in-mast mains and 8% have. in-boom mains. Of those ...
Brian Hooker is in the United States reportedly looking after his ailing mother. His wife Lynette Hooker, who went overboard at around 7:30 pm on April 4 from their dinghy as they motored back to ...
The Beagle Channel that traverses Patagonia offers one of the world’s most dramatic cruising grounds. At the very tip of South America, the channel, which is named after the ship Beagle in which ...
Since 1851, before the Civil War, American sailors have held or challenged for the America’s Cup, a sailboat regatta to determine what nation or nation-syndicate is the best in the world. So, it was ...
With the war underway in the Middle East and the likely unfavorable conditions for a Red Sea transit this spring, the migrating cruising fleet in Asia has started to alter plans. Some, as we reported ...
Well, here’s some good news to share this week. Last Friday, Great Lakes Rigging and Supply announced that it had purchased Tartan Yachts of Plaineville, Ohio from Michael Reardon who had acquired the ...
After a week at sea from São Miguel, the last of the Azores behind us, we were feeling pretty good about our near thousand-mile passage to Spain. During our last night before reaching Gibraltar, our ...
We learned last week that old friend Charles Tobias had passed away at his home in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 91. I got to know Charles later in his life when he was living in the BVI and focused on ...
Brian and Karen Trautman and their daughter Sierra will be well known as one of YouTube’s most popular cruising vlogers. They have been cruising for 15 years and creating high quality videos for 13.