Most anchoring failures aren't anchor failures. They're chain failures, snubber failures, or the wrong-size anchor. Here's the 30-minute audit before your first overnight of the season.
The choice between heaving-to and streaming a drogue isn't preference. It's hull shape, sea state, and where you are in the storm cycle. Here's the working framework.
The PNW Offshore Race turns 50 this year, and California Offshore Race Week's back-to-back format is the best three-week schedule in West Coast offshore. Here's how to crew up.
A short-format Atlantic crossing in IMOCA 60s is the bridge between the Vendée and the next round-the-world. Here's the route, the boats, and why this race actually matters.
After winning Rio, the BONDS Flying Roos sit on 35 points after four events. Bermuda's narrow Great Sound has flipped the script before — here's what to watch May 9–10.
The provisioning question almost everyone gets wrong on their first long passage is volume. Two adults eating well at sea need around 2,500 to 3,000 calories
Standing rigging fails in three places: at terminations, at fittings, and where the wire passes through anything that flexes. A good pre-passage survey is not about climbing
Heaving-to is the maneuver most cruisers know exists and most cruisers have never actually performed in 35 knots. It is also the maneuver that, in the right
The Ocean Race Atlantic - the first point-to-point race in The Ocean Race's 50-year history - starts September 1 in New York and finishes in
The 2026 SailGP season has reset its leaderboard twice in the last two months, and the Rio result tightened the field rather than spread it. Tom Slingsby'
Charleston Race Week wrapped April 19, and the inaugural ORC Sportboat North American Championship is in the books. Two boats came out of Patriots Point with new champion
Most offshore engine failures are fuel failures. Here’s the layered defence cruisers actually run.
