X MARKS THE SPOT : Sailing from Washington state to the Bahamas in search of the ultimate
destination—or maybe just the right state of mind.
By David Kilmer

THE YEAR OF THE PUPPY: Cleared out of tourists because of COVID, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines became a playground for our kids.
By Kia Koropp.

Exhaust System Upkeep Lesson No. 1: Keep that water out. Monthly Maintenance by Steve D’Antonio

A Classic Reborn: “How We Repurposed our Hallberg-Rassy Monsun for the Long Haul”.

WELL, HELLO, OLD FRIEND
Australia’s east coast once again proves a playground—sometimes a rough one—aboard the Contessa 25 Skyebird. 
By Kevin Green

HOSTS WITH THE MOST
With backgrounds in hospitality, a cruising couple relishes having guests aboard, and they know the perfect place to take them.
By David Kilmer

FROM OFFSHORE RACER TO PERFORMANCE CRUISER
A pair of Pacific Northwest sailors has big plans for the Open 60 that started life as the legendary Mike Plant’s Duracell.
By Janneke Petersen

SOLO THROUGH THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE.

TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR SAILBOAT.

WHAT’S NEW IN ELECTRONICS...

THE CHRISTMAS CRUISE
A Maine family reunites for a four-week Christmas getaway and sailboat delivery through the heart of the Caribbean, from Antigua down-island to Martinique.
By David H. Lyman

FRIENDS IN LOWCOUNTRY PLACES
Old pals join the captain and mate of a new Fountaine Pajot charter boat in Charleston for a cruise through the Sea Islands on an impromptu luxury sailing vacation.
By David Kilmer

KEEPIN’ HIS MO WORKING
A second attempt proves successful for a Bay Area sailor and adventurer, who’s determined to sail a fi gure-eight course around the Americas and Antarctica.
By Randall Reeves

Going Up
Climb the rig with a block and tackle and a sturdy harness.
by Andy Cross

CARIBBEAN GEMS
A couple of seasoned sailors compare notes and come up with eight anchorages that you just have to visit on any southbound cruise through the islands.
By David H. Lyman

Rigged Right
A determined DIYer experiments with soft shackles and lashings.  
by Ben Zartman

REGATTA IN PARADISE
Each fall, South Pacifi c cruisers gather in Fiji for the notorious regatta hosted by the Musket Cove Yacht Club. Let the party begin! 
By Ronnie Simpson

THE BOAT THAT FITS
Six couples explain just how they chose the boat they did before setting off on their sailing sabbaticals.
By Behan Gifford

SPECIAL REPORT: THE AWAKENING
As the pandemic wanes and people begin traveling again, the global sailing vacation industry is slowly returning to life.
By Herb McCormick

BOOKENDS
A sailing life is bracketed on either end by two fi ne boats—one sail, the other power—conceived of and built by the same designer.
By William Storandt

FREE BIRDS
A growing family living aboard an Open 40 raceboat-turned-cruiser can fi nally stretch their wings when they move aboard a big bluewater trimaran and set sail.
By Somira Sao

MAGIC OF MADAGASCAR
On the back half of a circumnavigation aboard their Fountaine Pajot Helia, a couple stops to explore the attractions of this Indian Ocean island nation.
By Amy Alton

Protecting the Dream
Recent losses make insuring your boat a challenge.
by Jennifer Brett

A MAINE ALTERNATIVE
As the unknowns of a second pandemic summer approach, a Down East sailor charts a getaway to the remote islands, bays and coves that lie in the heart of Penobscot Bay.
By David H. Lyman

BEARS AND BAD WEATHER
Three generations of sailors explore the inland waters of the Pacifi c Northwest and take a southbound venture along the wild west coast of Vancouver Island.
By Tor Johnson

CRUISING THE AVIAN ARCTIC
A couple sails to Alaska in search of wildlife. Who knew it would be the birds that would blow them away.
By Ellen Massey Leonard

SAILING FOR SURVIVAL - High school friends—one a Navy rescue swimmer, the other a writer—mount a mission to round Cape Horn and bring attention to veterans.

APOSTLE ISLAND BLISS - Unable to return to their boat in the South Pacific, a couple finds terrific sailing on a charter vacation much closer to home.

IN THE WAKE OF CAPT. MORGAN
Sailing eastward through the Panama Canal to explore the western Caribbean, a couple finds themselves following in the footsteps of one its more infamous pirates.
By Suzy Carmody

WINTERING ABOARD IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
A family of six in the British Virgin Islands ditches their plans for a circumnavigation and instead crosses the Atlantic to winter over in Oban, where they really want to be. 
By Maggie Hirt

THE OUTLOOK FOR CRUISING 2021
With travel regulations evolving worldwide in step with the COVID-19 pandemic, sailors assess their options and change tacks accordingly.
By Behan Gifford

BILLY PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
A pair of adventurers readies their new-to-them Passport 40 for bluewater voyaging, but first they have to fi x the leaks.
By Lesley Davison and Tim Murphy

THE CALENDAR STRUCK AGAIN
Family obligations and weather conspire to make for a long slog northward along the Tasmanian coast.
By Lin Pardey

MAROONED IN PARADISE
Anchored in Tropical Roatan by the global pandemic, a cruising couple goes from beach bars and potluck parties to locked-down living. 
By Amy Flannery

THE COVID CHRONICLES
Five cruisers report on where they were and what they did when the novel coronavirus sent the world into a tailspin.
Compiled and edited by Herb McCormick

LIVE SMALL, GO LARGE
With their tent and gear packed away in their tidy little yawl, a Maine couple finds a simple and comfortable way to explore the island-strewn bays Down East.
By Bill Mayer

SHOCK AND AWE
On a wild and windy day of multihull racing round St. Maarten, all was going perfectly on a big, powered-up trimaran. And then it wasn’t.
By Herb McCormick

THE FINISH IS JUST THE START
When the participants in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers make landfall in St. Lucia after a couple of weeks or more at sea, a whole new adventure is about to begin.
By Jennifer Brett

HOME IS WHERE THE BOAT IS
Poised to jump off across the Pacific a second time, a circumnavigator recounts her family’s long and winding journey to the cruising life.
By Behan Gifford

EVOLUTION BY DESIGN
After a three-decade hiatus, a seasoned sailor and marine writer experience a Rip Van Winkle-moment upon returning to the US Sailboat Show in Annapolis, Maryland.
By Dan Spurr

A TOUGH LITTLE LOOP
A sailor finds you can go quite a distance and still keep it local on a spring sail around the Delmarva Peninsula.
By Stephen Blakely

ARCTIC DREAMS
An intrepid young skipper and scientist have an ambitious plan to conduct climate research at the ends of the earth. But first they need to fix up their “free” boat.
By Angus Phillips

MAINE, BY CHANCE
A summer cruising Penobscot Bay has it all: sweet sailing breezes, exciting classicboat regattas, abundant islands and lobster pots aplenty.
By Mark Pillsbury

DRAGGING TO FREEDOM
An incident in the anchorage at Isla Mujeres, Mexico, leads a pair of young cruisers to a serendipitous friendship.
By Jordan Wicht

LESSONS OF THE SIXTH
Fresh from his latest lap around the planet, a veteran circumnavigator shares the highs and lows, and what worked and what didn’t during his journey.
By Webb Chiles

MAIDEN VOYAGE She grew up on her parents’ boat, and now she’s bought and refit one of her own, and is ready to see the world under sail.
By Holly Martin.

SAILING FOR THE FISHING A globe-circling cruising couple heads north and gets hooked on the finer points of casting for salmon in the Alaskan wilderness. By Ellen Massey Leonard.

THE END OF BEING Frustrating calms and hundreds of miles of headwinds mark the final leg of a solo sailor’s sixth circumnavigation.
By Webb Chiles.

SEA TRIALS A seasoned skipper assesses how a combination of weather, crews and boats shaped the course of three very different bluewater passages. By John Kretschmer.

ONE HARD SLOG The Alden schooner Charm III weathered extensive hurricane repairs on a beach in Anguilla only to face a long hard bash to the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta. By Gary E. Brown.

OLD DOG, NEW TRICKS Built for singlehanded racing, the Open 60 DogBark becomes the improbable vessel for a family’s audacious adventures. By Becca Guillote.

BARBA ON ICE The goal of a Norwegian expedition was simple: sail as far north from Svalbard and have as many adventures as the ice would allow. By Andreas B. Heide, with Terry Ward.

DOUBLE CROSSING An American sailor learns the ropes—literally—while plying the English Channel on a traditional Cornish Lugger. By David Bond.

SISTERS FROM OTHER MOTHERS Two old sailing pals get to enjoy each others’ company when they at last go for a cruise together, right in their own backyard. By Barbara Marrett.

CALIFORNIA CRUISING Forget the mad dash south, slow down and enjoy the wonders that await between the Golden Gate and Baja. By Suzy Carmody.

THIN WATER BIG SUNSHINE A couple discovers there’s plenty of peace and quiet on the coastal waters of Florida’s bustling west coast.
By David Kilmer.

A DASH BETWEEN HURRICANES Powerful ocean storms bookend a solo coastal voyage to a small-boat celebration on Chesapeake Bay. By Webb Chiles

FIFTY SHADES OF BLUE A flying and sailing vacation in the Bahamas inspires a couple of charter sailors to return as full-time cruisers. By Sam Weigel.

THE BEAR NECESSITIES Wooden schooner Passing Cloud sails the remote Pacific Northwest in search of treasure at sea and ashore. By Susan Colby.

POWER PLAY IN PARADISE The rum’s still tasty when friends trade sails for throttles on a power-cat vacation in the British Virgin Islands. By Zach Stovall.

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW Multiple generations of catamarans and trimarans turned out for the first running of the Caribbean Multihull Challenge this past winter in St. Maarten. By Herb McCormick.

BACK TO THE ABACOS With a new generation along for the ride, a family revisits islands they once explored aboard their Formosa 41, but this time on a thoroughly modern Maine Cat. By Tim Murphy.

AN EDUCATION IN CATS New and prospective catamaran owners head to the British Virgin Islands for a few days of instruction, mixed in with ample helpings of sun and breeze. By Jennifer Brett.

WOVEN ROVING A couple refreshes their cruising desires amid the wildlife and volcanic rocks of Mexico’s remote Isla Isabela. By Marga Pretorius.

FORGOTTEN JEWEL On an off-the-beaten-path Pacific Crossing, the crew of Small World II finds the laid-back pace of Tonga’s Niua islands much to their liking. By Todd Duff.

SMALL WONDERS San Francisco Bay is a big body of water to explore in a 10-foot sailing dinghy, but sometimes you just have to go with the boat you got. By Benjamin Shaw.

OH, THE PLACES I’VE SAILED - One of America’s most well-known sailors looks back at some of his favorite cruising destinations and ponders the question,  “Where to next?” By Gary Jobson.

SOUTHERN OCEAN SOJOURN - The wild and remote southern coast of Tasmania beckoned two cousins for a three-week sailing adventure. By Kevin Green.

SAILING IN CIRCLES - A pair of grandparents-to-be await news of the new arrival while cruising along the beautiful northern coast of Lake Huron. By Fred Bagley.

CHASING A PACIFIC HIGH Dubbed “The Fun Race to Hawaii,” the biennial Pacifi c Cup brings together sailors of all stripes.

ISLANDS FIT FOR A QUEEN A historic town and the remote Jardines de la Reina off the southern coast of Cuba beckoned two friends on a sailing vacation.

RIDING THE RIDEAU A canal boat’s cruising speed might be the same as a sailboat’s, but the experience of chartering one of these vessels to explore Canada’s Rideau Canal is ntirely fresh.

SUCH A DRAG Anchoring lessons, learned as a professional mariner and fi sherman, are tested on a stormy early spring solo voyage in the wilds of Alaska. By Mark Roye.

SAILING TO THE BEAT OF A DIFFERENT DRUMMER Cruising in tandem with a buddy boat, a pickup crew has way too much fun en route to Barbados from the Canary Islands. By Michelle Davies.

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