Desperately Seeking Solutions

Voyagers and closed borders

Amazing trades

A perfect passage from Cape Town to Barbados is a magical end to a circumnavigation

FROM THE Tagus to Rabat

A European winter base and a Moroccan trip to reset the EU clock

Squeezing out fresh water

Modern watermakers range from hands-off automatic units to basic operator involved models

Oil's well that ends well

Oil is oil, right? Wrong! Have you experienced the dread of searching for the correct engine oil in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language?

November shakedown to Bermuda

It was cold on the morning of Nov. 20, 2019, when Dan Torchio and his crew of two slipped the lines off Rhapsody, a Passport 47 aft cockpit cutter, departing the safe confines of Greenport, N.Y.

Building your own watermaker

Modern technology has brought us many new devices that make the cruising life much safer and easier.

Anchor room

One of the challenges of world voyaging is not only navigating open ocean, but also negotiating a busy anchorage when you finally arrive at your destination.

Delivering the goods

Looking at a boat like a delivery skipper

Pushing batteries to the limit

Exploring ways to store electrons

Safety thoughts from medical pros

Two former nurses describe their safety setup

Bluewater Gear

A 10-year circumnavigation gets stretched

The Art Of Becoming Fishermen

A voyaging couple's halting efforts learning to gather food from the sea.

Schooner Adix

Residents of Greenport, N.Y., a small maritime village on the northeast end of Long Island, have been watching all sorts of sailing ships come and go over the past couple hundred years.

Grabbing a mooring ball

Watching someone pick up a mooring ball has always been a source of amusement while sitting at anchor with an afternoon cocktail in hand.

Multisource charging

Alternative energy for the offshore yacht

Alternatives to ethanol

Gasoline out boards on voyaging yachts sometimes sit unused for extended periods, a potential problem with ethanol-blended fuels.

Surveying Boat Security

Important considerations to keep in mind when comparing security systems

Oil analysis is an invaluable tool, but often misinterpreted

I once read an article in a major boating magazine entitled “Oil Analysis Made Simple.”

Taking boat security seriously

A voyaging couple decides to invest in a high-end vessel protection setup

Ship or sail?

A cruising couple faces their toughest decision in 12 years of world voyaging

Worst weather challenges

A storm off the Cape of Good Hope and endless gales in the Arctic

Schooner Roseway

Although it fished on the Grand Banks, still holding the record of catching 74 swordfish in one day — with harpoon — the schooner Roseway wasn’t built as a commercial vessel.

Safety Rests On Preparation

Two retired medical personnel respond to a carbon monoxide emergency on a nearby boat

Chartroom Chatter

Voyaging power innovator Dave Smead remembered.

Protest Overshadows New Sydney-Hobart Records

WILD OATS XI SET A NEW COURSE RECORD IN THE 73RD running of the Rolex Sydney to Hobart race, knocking nearly five hours off the previous mark. But the skipper and crew aboard the supermaxi barely had time to celebrate the win.

Across The Skagerrak

Power cruising Norway’s fjord coast

The Future Of Networking?

The Future Of Networking?

A Ferrocement Schooner

The Ferro-cement schooner Rachel and Ebenezer in the Caribbean in 1981.

catastrophe at sea

a nighttime collision off thailand