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 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 ...

Over a long sailing career and with a hundred thousand miles under my keel, I am fortunate to be able to say I’ve never been faced with a man overboard emergency. But, that doesn’t mean it won’t ...

While most sailors have heard of Joshua Slocum and his famous solo circumnavigation aboard his sloop Spray, many will have never heard of the Canadian John Voss, who made an equally impressive voyage.

We’re soon going to be in the spring and early summer migration and offshore event season and so our thoughts turn to the gear we’ll need to be safe out there. We’ll need the foul weather gear for the ...

Many of us who have dedicated chart plotters on our boats or multifunction displays (MFDs), also have charting and routing apps on out phones and tablets that we can take home with us and use ashore.

Since 1851, before the Civil War, American sailors have held or challenged for the America’s Cup, a sailboat regatta to determine what nation or nation-syndicate is the best in the world. So, it was ...

(sailwire.com) – A schooner sunk by post-tropical storm Fiona after the 48-year-old wooden sailboat’s mooring dragged in St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia was floated again this week by a crew of ...