He Was Blind. She Had Cancer. They Needed Help To Sail Homeward

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A Day in the Life of a Half-Assed Gringo Mechanic

The Currency of Kindness: Why Boaters Treasure Hidden Harbors

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Experience maritime kindness in your travels, as small harbors offer unforgettable moments through the currency of kindness.

Around Iceland: A Summer of Sailing in the Cold North

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Ingrid and Robert Schnabl share their summer sailing adventure circumnavigating Iceland, from puffins and whales to wild fjords.

Islands of Intrigue: Cruising Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea’s remote shores offer an unforgettable blend of natural wonders and genuine human connections.

Boat People: Stranded but Never Alone on the ICW

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The blue Travelift puffs and rumbles. Muffled voices bray above the engine. I smile because I recognize those voices. In the weeks that I’ve been stalled at Mile 403 on the Intracoastal Waterway with engine problems, I’ve met a whole group of people—boat people. And many have become friends.

Problem Solving at Sea: The Gift of a Pacific Crossing

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This definitely wasn’t the best start. Our plan was to deliver the Jeanneau 53 Kaimana across the Pacific from San Diego to Honolulu for a friend and client, Michael Prescesky. I found myself drifting in a tiny inflatable, in the Pacific, a few miles off San Diego.

Bon Voyage Ka’iulani

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Ka’iulani’s majestic presence won’t be felt on the Bay until next year. © 2012 Jim Rimmer It was clear, sunny and calm this Saturday when the Sausalito-based 86-ft gaff schooner Ka’iulani cast off her dock lines and headed for Tahiti. After more than a decade plying the Bay as a charter schooner, educational vessel, and…

Pain Is the Ultimate Teacher: Hard Lessons in Seamanship

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Seamanship is common sense learned upon the sea. We sailors can learn—hell, even stinkpotters can learn. One thing that I learned as a teenager sailing offshore aboard my Atkin-designed double-ender was how easy it was to lose companionway slides overboard during heavy weather. 

Would You Sail Through a War Zone? These Yachts Did—Here’s How They Survived The Red Sea

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Yachting World is reporting that while missiles rain down on oil tanekrs and major shipping companies divert billions in cargo away from the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, a handful of brave, or perhaps foolhardy, yacht owners are still venturing into the dangerous waters of the Red Sea.

For the Greater Good

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In the past 50 years, the cruising scene has undergone major changes in boat design, performance, building material, electronic equipment, aids to navigation, and communications, as well as greatly improved weather forecasts.

A Rumble Below

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Strider, the Reliance 44 cutter I was aboard as a guest of the owner, left Bequia at midday on April 4. Our course was northbound to Chateaubelair, a village halfway up the west coast of St. Vincent. The 20 miles took us less than four hours.

Chasing Perfection: A Quest for the Ideal Bluewater Boat

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Every voyage starts with a dream. For me, it goes back a long while to when I was a little boy and wanted to become a sailor. That dream came true a quarter-century later. I was working in the Romanian language service of the BBC.

Riders on the Storm

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Ray Pentrack quipped as I passed him in the Cruz Bay grocery store. He was the manager at Cruz Bay Marina on St. John in the US Virgin Islands. I had just flown in from Maine, looking ­forward to a few weeks on my boat before hauling out for ­hurricane season.  “Hurricane Hugo,” Ray said.

Surviving the Storm: A Sailor’s Tale of Hurricane Lee

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It was, in fact, dark and stormy on that night in September 2023. The sunset had been extraordinary, shining orange and pink on breakers pounding the headland of Great Wass Island in Beals, Maine.

Fog, a Friend, and Fixes–Randall

Harmon and Randall's Voyage…

It is commonly held that fortune favors the prepared. Often unremarked is that fortune has a mischievous twin with whom she shares her secrets. Thus it is that a man can set out from Homer, confident in his months of boat work, only to be tripped up just beyond the breakwater. 

Mexico to Hawaii: passage report

The last of any cruising cobwebs were shaken out as we sailed Totem across a chunk of the Pacific Ocean. Our recent passage from Los Frailes, Baja California Sur to Honokōhau, Hawaii was within 100 NM of the distance we sailed from Mexico to French Polynesia. Significant!

Life Aboard a Renovated World War II Tugboat

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The morning of our departure I woke in the dark, Rachel and the baby breathing softly beside me. An oval of light worked its way over the knotty pine of the Adak’s stateroom, cast by the sodium floodlights of a herring seiner passing in the channel.

An Oasis in the Middle of the Atlantic

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Shielding my face from the misty rain, I was steps away from turning around when the sound of jeering cut through the creaking of moored boats.

Caribbean Cruising: A Moveable Feast

The Lesser Antilles, on the eastern rim of the Caribbean Sea, is perhaps the finest watery hideaway for boaters on our planet. It’s impossible to exaggerate the magnificence of this sailors’ paradise.

On Watch: The Headaches of Haulouts

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