anchoring
Anchoring Over Coral: Responsible Practices for Tropical Cruisers
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
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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 a level
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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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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
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 bluewater
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Choosing Ground Tackle For Offshore Cruising: A System, Not A Shopping List
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 anchor with the
Seamanship
Heavy Weather Tactics: A Sail Plan For When The Forecast Was Wrong
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
Seamanship
Diesel Engine Maintenance For Bluewater Passages: A Practical Playbook
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
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Raymarine Axiom 2 and the 2026 Marine Electronics Refresh: What Sailors Should Know
The 2026 boating season is shaping up to be a real inflection point for cruising electronics. Raymarine rolled out the Axiom 2 family at the Palm Beach International
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Cut the Cord: Garmin OnBoard and the New Era of Wireless MOB Safety
Man overboard situations are the nightmare scenario that every offshore sailor rehearses but prays never happens. The grim statistics haven’t changed much in decades — if you go