gear-review
Garmin GPSMap 9000xsv Series Review: The New 2026 MFD Benchmark
Garmin's new GPSMap 9000xsv series is the 2026 flagship MFD for cruising sailors, and after spending time with the 13-inch unit installed on a 47-
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Antigua Bermuda Race 2026: What to Watch as the Fleet Heads North
The fifth edition of the Antigua Bermuda Race starts April 29, 2026, sending a fleet of offshore yachts across 935 nautical miles of open Atlantic from English Harbour
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Passage Provisioning: Feeding a Crew for 30 Days at Sea Without Losing Your Mind
A 30-day passage — whether that’s Galápagos to the Marquesas, the Canaries to the Caribbean, or a well-planned northern route from Bermuda to the Azores — forces
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Night Watch Routines That Actually Work for Short-Handed Bluewater Crews
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
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Ground Tackle Decoded: Anchors, Rode, and Snubbers for Bluewater Cruising
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.
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2026 Hurricane Season: Up to 16 Named Storms, and Where Bluewater Boats Are Parking Below the Belt
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
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Raymarine Axiom 2 Debuts at Palm Beach 2026 — What Bluewater Cruisers Actually Get
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
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Antigua Bermuda Race 2026: The 935-Mile Caribbean Classic Returns for Its Fifth Edition
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
Seamanship
Eyeball Navigation in Coral: Reading Water Color, Light, and the Pass at Slack
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
Anchoring
Setting a Second Anchor: When It Helps, When It Hurts, and How to Do It Right
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
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The Ocean Race Atlantic 2026: Why a September Transatlantic Tests Everything About a Boat
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
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RORC Transatlantic 2026: Three Things the Winners Did Differently — and What Cruisers Can Learn
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,