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 […]
Surviving Irma in Tortola: Todd Duff’s First Person Account
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) […]
Sailing Phuket and Discovering Thailand
An adventurous couple delves into all that Phuket and Phang Nga Bay offer travelers and cruising sailors (published September 2017, photographs by Michaela Urban) I spent […]
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 […]
Escape From Pago Pago
Cruising American Samoa is not as impossible as it seems (published September 2017) It appeared that we were victors and victims of that strange luck, circumstance: […]
Into the Leeward Isles
Cruising south through the tall Caribbean islands that kiss the clouds (September 2017) When I retired five years ago my wife Brenda and I headed out […]
Discovering Poros
Legend has it that once you visit Poros you will always return (published August 2017) The azure sea was smooth as satin, touching the infinite sky […]