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 ...

The 2026 edition has 12 provisional entries and is set to start from Les Sables-d’ OLonne, France on September 6. Based on the first Globe race, entrants must sail in conventional cruising boats from ...

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It is not often that we put the words “couple’s performance cruiser” in the same headline as the words “67- foot ultimate.” That’s big boat for a couple. But, therein lies the story of the new Pegasus ...

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 ...

It is always instructive to read cruising notes from veteran offshore sailors who know the cruising game well and know the landfall they are writing about from a host of first-hand experiences. Such ...

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 ...

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 ...