Part One: An American and two Russians get their boat and themselves ready for the fateful cruise to Cuba (published November/December 2017) In the summer of […]
Rough Passage to Havana
Moody Deck Saloon 54
The new Bill Dixon design is a proper yacht that a couple could easily sail around the world (published March 2018) It was a beautiful autumn […]
Mahina Tiare Sails into the Med
From Lisbon on the Atlantic coast, they cruise to Gibraltar, the south of Spain and the Balearic Islands (January/February 2018) Amanda and I had an excellent […]
Galley Guide: Solar Cooking
(January/February 2018) A long, long time ago, on a dock far, far away I had my first taste of solar cooking. It was Baja Mexico in […]
Surviving Irma in Tortola: Todd Duff’s First Person Account
Cruising sailor, yacht broker, surveyor and author Todd Duff was there and so was the Amel 53 Ocean Life that he used to live aboard (published […]
The Year of the Hurricane?
The numbers aren’t all in yet, but we already know that one year does not necessarily make a trend (published Nov/Dec 2017) For many, the hurricane […]
Black Sands, Black Magic
Vanuatu by Sail (published October 2017) Since we left Panama and started sailing west across the Pacific it has felt like we were twenty years too […]
Paradise Found in High Latitudes
(published September 2017) It’s June and I’m cold. A heavy rain pelts my black Musto jacket and I pull the brim of the hood down slightly […]
There’s This Place
Puerto Bahia Marina, Samana, Dominican Republic (published September 2017) Nestled on the north side of Samana Bay, on the eastern end of the Dominican Republic (DR) […]
Iceland to Scotland, a Whirlwind of Adventure
Mahina Tiare and her crew sail in some of the North Atlantic’s most remote and beautiful islands (published September 2017) Our Leg 4 crew joined us […]