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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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 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
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
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
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 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
The single most-neglected safety system on most cruising sailboats is the diesel engine. It sits in a damp locker, gets used for ten minutes a day leaving
The early forecasts for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season are in, and the headline is cautious optimism. Colorado State University projects 13 named storms, six hurricanes and two
After a two-year hiatus, the Antigua Bermuda Race returns on April 29, 2026, and the buzz along the Caribbean circuit has been building all season. The 935-
Somewhere between New Zealand and Tonga right now, a small crew is doing something most of us only dream about — sailing the deep Pacific with purpose. The South