The marine diesel engine is the bluewater cruiser's most reliable failure point. Reliable in the sense that it almost never fails for mechanical reasons; failure point
Choosing the right anchor for your bluewater cruiser is the kind of decision that gets argued about at every yacht club bar from Annapolis to Auckland. The anchor
A reliable diesel is the backbone of any offshore cruising boat. Unlike a road vehicle, a marine auxiliary sees infrequent, long-duration use in a corrosive environment with
Cruising into tropical waters usually means dropping the hook over coral at some point. It shouldn't, and in increasingly many places it isn't even
The World ARC 2026 fleet left Saint Lucia in January on a 26,000-nautical-mile, 15-month circumnavigation, and by mid-April they've put three
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-
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
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
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
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
