Surfer
END TIMES FOR PRO SURFING
By the time the pandemic is done reshaping the world, will the World Tour still have a place in it?
10+ min |
Volume 61, Issue 3 / Winter 2020
Surfer
CHANGING OF THE GUARD
After decades of exclusive access to Hollister Ranch, the most coveted stretch of California coast is finally going public
10+ min |
Volume 61, Issue 3 / Winter 2020
Surfer
What They Don't Tell You
How does becoming a mother affect your surfing life?
10+ min |
Volume 61, Issue 3 / Winter 2020
Small Craft Advisor
Getting in Touch with Reality
As part of my usual in-depth research for this column I decided to ask Google whether sailing was safe. “In fact, it can be deadly,” came the response, “A study from Rhode Island Hospital concluded sailing is more dangerous, and has a higher fatality rate, than skiing and snowboarding combined with NFL football.”
2 min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
Five Days in the Turnbull Islands
I rowed out of the marina at Blind River, Ontario, and raised the sail just offComb Point. It had been a ten-hour drive from Wisconsin, followed by the usual scramble to launch and load the boat.
10+ min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
The Worst Sailor Still Alive
Upon retirement I decided to learn how to sail, so I bought a little dinghy and taught myself how to efficiently capsize, founder on rocks, and embarrass myself in front of large groups.
5 min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
SMALL BOAT CRUISE: Tobyhanna Lake by Sunfish
Tobyhanna is a Native American word for “a stream whose banks are fringed with alder.”
7 min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
PLAN STUDY: Kombi Sail and Paddle Canoe
The first boat I designed was the Beth Sailing Canoe, which, for better or worse, made me a marked man.
4 min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
Born Again
An 1881 Bowdish sailboat, abandoned in a northern Michigan junkyard, is rescued and restored to museum condition by John Parlin, wooden boat surgeon extraordinaire
10+ min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
AUSTRALIA THE HARD WAY
The David Pyle Interview
10+ min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
Amateur Boatbuilding: What if I Make a Mistake?
Everyone makes mistakes. If we try new things we will make mistakes, an essential part of the learning experience. It’s nice to learn from mistakes of others, but we learn more lessons and they stick better when they are our own. The more painful the mistake, the stronger the lesson learned.
5 min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
Reader Boat: Precision 165
During my three years of ownership, here are just a few things I’ve observed about my P165. Most of these features have contributed to my joy of sailing this little boat.
3 min |
November - December 2020
Small Craft Advisor
Are Power Tools Corrupting Us?
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” —First Baron Acton, 1904
6 min |
November - December 2020
Yachting World
SPECIAL REPORT
GROW YOUR OWN FOOD ON BOARD, BY ERIN CAREY
6 min |
November 2020
Yachting World
RETURN TO 60° SOUTH
OCEAN RACER NICK MOLONEY RETURNED TO THE DEEP SOUTH WITH A MEMORABLE VOYAGE TO ANTARCTICA
10+ min |
November 2020
Yachting World
SKIP NOVAK
WHEN DOES BEING PREPARED BECOME HOARDING? SKIPPERS SHOULD AVOID THE TEMPTATION OF ‘ JUST IN CASE’
3 min |
November 2020
Yachting World
NEW GEAR
RUPERT HOLMES ON INDUCTION COOKING AFLOAT
4 min |
November 2020
Yachting World
NAVIGATION BRIEFING
MIKE BROUGHTON ON SAILING IN FOG
6 min |
November 2020
Yachting World
SUNK BY A WHALE
A PACIFIC CROSSING BECAME A DRAMATIC MID-OCEAN RESCUE FOR PETER NIELSEN
10+ min |
November 2020
Yachting World
MATT SHEAHAN
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS AFFECTED THE BOATING INDUSTRY AND THE SPORT OF SAILING IN A BIG WAY. . . BUT IT'S NOT ALL BAD NEWS
3 min |
November 2020
Yachting World
CRUISE THE WORLD... WITHOUT A BOAT
ELAINE BUNTING GETS TIPS FROM CREW ON HOW TO HITCH-HIKE YOUR WAY AROUND THE OCEANS, AND FROM SKIPPERS ON HOW TO TAKE ON EXTRA HANDS
10+ min |
November 2020
Yachting World
DARING TO DREAM
A RECORD FLEET OF 33 SKIPPERS WILL LINE UP IN THIS YEAR’S VENDEE GLOBE. PIP HARE EXPLAINS HOW IT FEELS TO BE ONE OF THEM...
9 min |
November 2020
Yachting World
5 EXPERT TIPS - HOW TO HELM AT NIGHT
HENRY BOMBY has raced a lot of miles through the night. He talks to ANDY RICE about how to keep your boat speed up after dark
3 min |
November 2020
Yachting World
OFFSHORE BOSS
AFTER AN ENVIABLE PROFESSIONAL SAILING CAREER, EDDIE WARDEN OWEN HAS A RARE PERSPECTIVE ON THE WORLD OF RACING, AS ELAINE BUNTING HEARS
8 min |
October 2020
Yachting World
SURFING INTO EL SALVADOR
SUZY CARMODY STUMBLED UPON A SOCIABLE CRUISING COMMUNITY AS SHE EXPLORED EL SALVADOR
9 min |
October 2020
Yachting World
ROCK HARD
A VOYAGE ROUND CAPE HORN AND THROUGH THE BEAGLE CHANNEL IS INTERRUPTED BY AN ENCOUNTER WITH A SUBMERGED ROCK
9 min |
October 2020
Yachting World
MATT SHEAHAN
THE CLASSIC J CLASS AND THE LATEST SPIRIT 111MAY BE 90 YEARS APART, BUT THEY SHARE A COMMON THEME
3 min |
October 2020
Yachting World
SUMMER ON ICE
ANDY SCHELL EXPLORED NEWFOUNDLAND’S RUGGED FJORD COAST ABOARD HIS SWAN 59 ICEBEAR
10+ min |
October 2020
Yachting World
SPECIAL REPORT
HOW TO CROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN, BY JANNEKE KUYSTERS
9 min |
October 2020
Yachting World
SECRETS OF BOAT THE TESTERS
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHICH YACHT IS RIGHT FOR YOU? WILL BRUTON GETS EXPERT ADVICE FROM SAILORS WHO TEST DRIVE BOATS FOR A LIVING…
10+ min |