The night watch is where bluewater passages are won or lost. Not by bursts of speed but by the unglamorous arithmetic of sleep, hydration, and attention — accumulated over
The anchor is the single most important piece of equipment on a bluewater cruising boat. It is the difference between a peaceful night and a 3 a.m.
NOAA’s April outlook and the Colorado State group are both pointing at a 2026 Atlantic hurricane season in the 14-to-16 named-storm range, with as
Raymarine used the 2026 Palm Beach International Boat Show to roll out the Axiom 2, the third and final leg of a platform overhaul that now includes the
The fifth edition of the Antigua Bermuda Race fires its starting gun on April 29, sending a fleet of offshore-ready boats on a 935-nautical-mile northbound
Charts in the tropical Pacific and the outer reefs of the Caribbean are very often wrong. Survey data in French Polynesia still traces in significant part to Captain
The subject of a second anchor generates more confident opinion-giving and less careful thinking than almost any other topic in cruising. Somewhere in the collective unconscious of
The Ocean Race Atlantic, scheduled to start from New York City on September 1, 2026, and finish in Lorient, France, is a short-format transatlantic that punches well
The twelfth RORC Transatlantic Race left Marina Lanzarote in the Canary Islands on January 11 and finished in Antigua across the next three weeks. Twenty-one boats started,
The 2026 Pacific Cup starts in San Francisco Bay in early July, sending the biennial fleet 2,070 nautical miles downwind to Kaneohe Bay on O'ahu.
Every cruising sailor eventually discovers that ground tackle is not a commodity. A 45-pound anchor with three-eighths chain is not the same as another 45-pound
Every bluewater sailor eventually experiences the moment when the forecast blows up. You planned a reaching passage in 20 knots, you are now taking 38 gusting 50, and
