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 […]
Making a Visual Commotion
Gaining an Understanding
Regardless of what you’re trying to accomplish as a team or crew, clear communications is central to success (published March 2016) Anchored off a lee shore […]
Safety At Sea Seminars
Safety depends on planning, preparation and practice-and the hard information you will learn at a sanctioned Safety at Sea seminar (published May 2015) The 1979 Fastnet […]
Fitting Out for An Offshore Passage South
Headed offshore to the Caribbean or Mexico this winter? Here are the basics for preparing your boat and crew for the rigors of an autumn ocean […]
AIS for Cruisers
(published May 2014) The Universal Shipborne Automatic Identification System (AIS) that was put into action in 2002 by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), mandated that commercial […]
Personal Locator Beacons Save Lives
These small, inexpensive beacons perform mighty big jobs (published February 2014) In the 2011 Fastnet Race, the mega maxi racer Rambler was leading the fleet when […]