How Top Race Navigators Read the Atlantic and What Cruisers Can Learn

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From trade wind strategy to squall management, elite RORC navigators share Atlantic lessons that long-range cruisers can apply offshore.

SV MAGIC BUS

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Official Incident Documentation SV MAGIC BUS Offshore Incident Report & Analysis Nov 1-6, 2025 Offshore Cape Hatteras 5 Survivors Report Sections Overview Detailed Timeline Rescue Operation Lessons Learned Crew Bios Media Coverage Vessel Details Photographic Log Overview and Summary Compiled from crew accounts, communication logs, and a formal debrief held in Newport RI, at 16:00 […]

Solo Pacific Crossing: One Sailor, One Boat, 3,000 Miles

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A solo sailor’s 3,000-mile Pacific crossing delivers raw danger, beauty and self-discovery on one of cruising’s toughest passages.

Is There a Doctor Aboard? | Cruising World

If you’re preparing for a visit to the Caribbean, or any offshore haul, it’s important to know your medical options—and have a plan.When sailing in remote areas, clear communication is essential for requesting crucial medical assistance. Erwin Barbé/stock.adobe.comAn incident last…

Problem Solving at Sea: The Gift of a Pacific Crossing

Cruising World

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.

Pain Is the Ultimate Teacher: Hard Lessons in Seamanship

Cruising World

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. 

For the Greater Good

Cruising World

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.

Chasing Perfection: A Quest for the Ideal Bluewater Boat

Cruising World

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.

The 6 preparation rules you should follow for sailing across oceans

Yachting World

I completed my eighth and most recent Atlantic crossing in February, sailing from Mindelo, Cape Verde, to Barbados aboard our Farr 65 Falken with 10 crew. The 2,200-mile passage took just under 11 days — fast, comfortable and dreamy, exactly as you hope for a tradewind crossing in the tropics.

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!

Sold for $239,000, This Map Is Actually a Rare 14th-Century Nautical Chart—and Worth $7.5 Million

Smithsonian Magazine

Last fall, Christie’s auctioned off a “highly unusual” nautical map as part of an estate sale for Ann and Gordon Getty. But the artifact, called a portolan chart, was even more unusual than officials suspected.

An Ode to Lahaina

Special delivery: Sign up for the free Cruising World email newsletter. Subscribe to Cruising World magazine for $29 for 1 year and receive 3 bonus digital issues. I came to Lahaina from the south.

Swimming Away from the Boat

The New York Review of Books

For the past eight months I’ve been compulsively following what feels like a reality TV show in which every few weeks someone is forced off the set. It’s not a show, though, and the drama has remained mostly hidden from sight, taking place across several oceans.

‘We lost our mast 1,000 miles from land’

Yachting Monthly

There is safety in numbers. The larger your pod, herd or, in this case, fleet, the greater your chances of survival, offering protection, safety and confidence. For years, Louise and Jorgen Wennberg had been planning the sailing voyage of a lifetime.

A Small Boat, a Vast Sea and a Desperate Escape From Russia

A series of knocks rattled his apartment door one day last fall, and Maksim peered through the peephole to see two soldiers in uniform. They were military enlistment officers, he knew, expanding the vast conscription effort for the war in Ukraine to Russia’s remote Far East.

Weather window for crossing the Drake Passage

Ocean Navigator –

In the northern hemisphere as we move toward the winter solstice, our counterparts in the southern hemisphere are approaching their summer solstice with the longest day of the year on the way.

Detour to Bermuda for rescue

Scuttlebutt Sailing News

The plan for Willie, Geoff, Chris, and Tim was to deliver the J/133 Vamoose to Antigua from Newport, RI. At least that was the plan until help was needed… Willie Dresser explains:

A Tale of Two Rallies: Sailing Fleets Head South for the Season

Cruising World

Special delivery: Sign up for the free Cruising World email newsletter. Subscribe to Cruising World magazine for $29 for 1 year and receive 3 bonus digital issues. Two fleets departed the US East Coast this past fall, bound for the Caribbean as part of annual rallies to the islands.

The Sail to Nowhere

Cruising World

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16-year-old Cal Currier Completes Solo Trans-Atlantic Sail

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