Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with ...

Over the last decade, Balance Yachts, which is based in St. Francis Bay, Sout Africa, has built and launched 100 performance catamarans and along the way the builders, the designe ...

On Wednesday the 27th, the Newport harbormaster sighted the boat in the anchorage and reported it to Newport police. Four Newport officers and three crew from the harbormaster’s office approached the ...

Jump ahead a couple of decades and we were returning from Europe via the northern route: Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and fetching up on Newfoundland. Around Greenland we again used a router, in part as ...

BNob MacKie on sv Hedonism, posted the story below recently from Tahiti’s Radio One website regarding the policy changes put ...

On August 8, our old and dear friend John Rousmanier sailed over the bar and left this mortal coil. There have been very few in our sailing, cruising and offshore racing worlds who have contributed ...

Previously published in BWS by Pete Dubler. About six months before leaving for full time cruising, we decided to spend some time practicing with our spinnaker. We had almost two years of sailing on ...

Here’s the first part in a two part series on life rafts: Nationally known safety-at-sea expert Chuck Hawley gives us a comprehensive guide on life rafts, their equipment and care… Life rafts are ...

In an unusual confluence of events, the skies over the eastern half of North America and the Caribbean are definitely looking hazier than usual and the sun has turned a strange pale orange. The huge ...

Fact: Americans need more time off. We take notoriously few paid vacation days each year: 12, compared to 25 in Japan, 28 in Australia and a whopping 42 in Italy. It’s not because we’re chained to our ...

On April 30, Daedalus Yachts founder Michael Reardon announced that he and his company had acquired Catalina Yachts and its sister company True North. The announcement signals both a major shift in ...

As we motored the new Catalina 275 out of Annapolis and into the Chesapeake Bay on a cloudy almost windless afternoon that was threatening showers, I felt the liveliness of the tiller and rudder in my ...