Before heading offshore, take some time to know how your boat responds in various conditions (published October 2016) While sailors often think first of checking the condition of ...
A cruising couple benefit from a little shade (published Dec/Jan 2016-17) We admire intrepid cruisers, captains and crew intent on sailing high latitudes, enduring chilly challenges around distant ...
The decision to switch from a symmetrical spinnaker to a Parasailor proved to be the right one for this cruising couple aboard their Pearson 424 (published June 2016) ...
Whether you’d like to extend your sailing season into the colder months or make a voyage to the wilds of the high latitudes, there’s extra planning involved. (published ...
Safety at Sea instructor Paul Cunningham helps us to understand the differences between inflatable PFDs, and the pros and cons of manual and auto inflate models. As the ...
A guide to everything you should know about visual communication (published March 2016) From our boat anchored alone between cities off the Indian River on July 4th, with ...
For many years the only choice sailors had for fabric and engineering for their sails was cross-cut Dacron sails and for many years cross-cut Dacron sails suited them ...
(published February 2016) Wind whipped through Portland Island, B.C.’s tall, old growth forest as we hiked away from the anchorage towards the island’s interior. In the forest, the ...
Getting a 48′ Gunboat catamaran to Cape Hatteras in mid-December might seem like a good idea to some folks, but it could leave a great deal of risk ...
Some 350 boats sailed in last fall’s rallies and most of them used advanced navigation and routing systems (published January 2016) Last November, I was lucky to join ...
