BWS INTERVIEW: Gregor Tarjan Multihulls in America

World Cruising: Highlights of the Society Islands A cruiser’s guide to one of the South Pacific’s most dreamy destinations by Nadine Slavinski

Cruising Life: The Other Higher Education “A Whale-Ship was my Yale College and my Harvard”—Herman Melville by Ellen Massey Leonard

Classic Passages: Cruising Norway An armchair sailor’s dream charter come true by Juan Florin Continue Reading…..

SPARE PARTS

We put over 60,000 miles on our Mason 43 Clover during an extended circumnavigation and during those years we had to repair just about everything on the boat at least once, if not three times. In that self-sufficient spirit, we are happy to bring you our annual Spring Commissioning special section starting on page 50.

On our boat’s engine, a Volvo that my Aussie friends used to call “the green death”, we always kept up the usual maintenance program and got excellent service for almost 4,000 hours. But, the raw water pump was a consistent headache. The main problem was that the engine was mounted below Clover’s floorboards and the water pump was tucked away out of sight beneath the heat exchanger. Continue Reading…..

A semi-custom, luxury cruiser from Holland, the new Contest 42CS offers megayacht styling in a cruising boat for discerning couples and families.  Continue Reading…..

With a unique and flexible design, the Beneteau Oceanis 38 is going to evolve with your sailing style in mind By Andrew Cross

Being that I am slightly obsessed with sailboats, I usually get excited when something new and bold hits the market. It is a rarity, though, when I am overly enthusiastic to see the interior of a boat first—I guess I’d much rather be on deck actually doing the sailing then dwelling on the finer points of joinery and fabric selection. But when the design specs and marketing material for the Beneteau Oceanis 38 first came across the nav desk of my home office, I thought, “Wow, this is new.” Working to create a boat that is as diverse as our modern lives have become, the Beneteau Oceanis 38 is a boat designed for everyone. With three models to choose from—daysailer, weekender or cruiser—you can literally configure the boat for your sailing style. And this boat has style in spades. Continue Reading…..

Equal parts performance and comfort, the Allures 45 will take you wherever you want to go By Andrew Cross

At first glance the Allures 45 looked every bit the capable blue water voyager I had expected, ready and willing to take a competent crew around the world many times over. From the floating docks of the Annapolis boat show, I easily imagined her swinging at anchor in crystal clear tropical waters, resting with centerboard up on a high-latitude beach or romping offshore with reefs neatly tucked in her sails. But dockside admiration and wanderlust alone are just the beginning for this well-found French-built aluminum world cruiser. Continue Reading…..

As Bavaria’s Daniel Kohl and I walked down the dock toward the new Bavaria Cruiser 41 that we were going to take out for a test sail, it became increasingly apparent that our afternoon of sailing was going to be either very short or very long.

The surface of Spa Creek in Annapolis, MD, was glassy. Not a ripple. At the tops of the masts in the marinas, the wind cups were spinning slowly so there was a little hope. Daniel is the head of product development for Bavaria’s sailboat division and responsible for the design and styling of all of the cruising boats that Bavaria builds, which includes six Cruiser models from 33 to 56 feet and the Vision 42 and 46.  Continue Reading…..