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 […]
Gaining an Understanding
Creative Anchoring Makes for Good Sleeping
(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 […]
Pocket Protectors: Delorme & SPOT
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 […]
Long Range Communications
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 […]
No Fear, The Electronics of Getting Rescued
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 […]
Donna Lange Completes Second Solo Sail Around the World at the End of This Month
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 […]
Touche’s Second Expedition to Svalbard, part two
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 […]
Fitting Out
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 […]
The View From the Top
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 […]
Water Power
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 […]