High Latitude Sailing, Self-Sufficient Sailing Techniques for Cold Waters and Winter Seasons By Jon Amtrup and Bob Shepton Hardcover, 198 pages, $35 Adlard Coles, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London Written by two extremely experienced ocean voyagers, High Latitude Sailing provides exactly…
So many of our words and expressions come from the world of ships and sailing: taken aback, by and large, hand over fist, a wide berth, a loose cannon, chock-a-block, and landfall. Landfall, to a seafarer, is the moment…
While essentially the entire world was on lockdown and almost all…
The coast of Maine is known for boatbuilding. From peapods to superyachts, from lobster boats to Navy ships, pretty much every form of the industry is represented.
Years ago, on our circumnavigation aboard our 38-foot cutter Heretic, we had reached Cairns in northern Australia when we left the boat in a marina and returned to the U.S. to work during the Southern Hemisphere cyclone season.
No one likes sailing to a schedule. It’s stressful; you never know if the weather will cooperate, or for that matter if the boat will cooperate.
The joke about seasickness is that it has three stages: feeling terrible, worried you might die and worried you won’t die.
Everyone is different, so everyone has his or her own best ways to prevent and alleviate seasickness.
Volvo Ocean Race boats are all at the cutting edge of sailing technology, right up to what the crew eat and drink.
When their main desalinator broke, these Volvo Ocean Race sailors broke out the emergency unit
In the 18th and 19th centuries, sailors who lived long, unscathed lives were thought to be blessed with luck.
On Sept. 2, 2013, Canadian sailor Glenn Wakefield departed his native Victoria, B.C., on his second attempt at a solo non-stop circumnavigation, westward against the prevailing winds of the Roaring Forties.
Voyaging is a healthy enterprise. The air at sea is unpolluted; the watch routine ensures that sailors spend more time outside than their landlocked friends; food can sometimes come fresh from the sea or, especially in the tropics, fresh from tree and vine. Regular, structured exercise, however, remains a problem.
Eighty sail and power boats arrived on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, over Labor Day weekend for the 36th annual Victoria Classic Boat Festival.
Voyaging under sail has many pleasures, but a major reward is experiencing the beauty of the natural world.
To the editor: The Pacific basin is an iconic tourist destination, and for good reason. Any voyager who has spent time there can attest to its beauty and diversity: the Tuamotus’ palm-fringed atolls, Fiji’s lush rainforests, and New Zealand’s vertiginous…
Many sailors describe voyaging as “fixing boats in exotic places.” More often than we’d like to admit, this is accurate.
The most painful illness I suffered on our voyage was the most difficult to cure.
Almost all potential voyagers want to strike a balance between affordability and the size of the boat they want.
