Seamanship

These small satellite communications devices  can track your progress, send and receive short messages and send an SOS  (published February 2016) Pocket-sized satellite communications devices have […]

When you are off the grid long range communication gets more difficult. Sometimes the best solutions are different than you think they might be. Let’s go […]

Sometimes all the preparation of getting ready to go cruising makes my head hurt but never more so than when it came time to replace/upgrade our […]

When Donna Lange brings her boat to the Herreshoff Museum dock in Bristol, RI, at the end of this month (May 2016) she will have sailed […]

The crew of Touche continues to explore the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean  (published February 2016) After we felt we had explored Bell Sound (even […]

Readying a small boat for a Pacific crossing  (published December 2015) Outfitting a boat for an ocean crossing is no easy task. Like so many aspects […]

Going aloft can be either a heart-wrenching experience or an adrenaline rush to a room with a view. It certainly gives one a different perspective on […]

Let your boat’s speed through the water charge your battery bank  (published November 2015) Water powered the beginning of the Industrial Revolution when inventors and entrepreneurs […]

Over the last few years Jill, my wife, and I have read lots of stories of cruisers losing their rigs to one or another failure in […]

There is a plethora of choices when it comes to sails for offshore passagemaking but as always there is the struggle between how many sails to […]