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 ...

For sailors of a certain age, the name Sir Robin Knox Johnston holds a special place in the pantheon of famous sailors. On April 22, 1969, Johnston sailed his 32-foot ketch Suhaili into Falmouth, ...

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 ...

So far this this year, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Great Lakes District has recorded 187 false distress calls of which at least three were hoaxes. In a recent announcement, the District said that these ...

For many a cruising sailors, there is strong appeal to exploring the canals of Europe, with the mast down, on the dozens of navigable canals. Leaving the North Atlantic for a season of quietly ...

Since the start of the Iran war and the incidents of ships being shot at by Houthi’s in Yemen, we have kept an eye on the cruising fleet that migrates up the Red Sea every spring to the Med. Initially ...

While most sailors agree that Maine is a five-star destination, they also know that challenges exist. The free, online Cruising Club of America Cruising Guide to Maine (https://guides.cruisingclub.org ...

Many thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to last week’s survey on drinking alcohol while underway or on passage. A whopping 63% say they do not drink or serve alcohol while underway. 22% say ...