While not all voyagers carry surfboards, paddle boards or kayaks with them, some voyagers do. And many others bring a dinghy along, even when they're in home waters. If you have any type of small watercraft and lose track of…
Rebecca Childress, live aboard voyager on the Valiant 40 Brick House and frequent contributor to ON, lost her husband Patrick to COVID 19 this past summer in Cape Town. She has posted a new video to the Brick House Youtube channel…
Power voyagers have engines, sailors have the wind and ocean rowers have … muscles. In mid-September, British solo rower Lia Ditton finished a…
Marvin Creamer, a sailor who performed a seemingly miraculous circumnavigation in the mid-1980s, has crossed the bar for the last time. A former geography professor at Rowan…
Crew aboard the Matson cargo ship Mahimahi learned just after lunch on July 6 that a sailboat transiting from San Francisco to Hawaii was in trouble. The…
A 50-foot trimaran was launched in the port of Plymouth in the U.K. in late September. While 50 feet doesn’t usually a ship…
In a ceremony that was held…
Editor’s note: this announcement is from Boatwatch.org, a website run by Glenn and Eddie Tuttle and associated with the Seven…
The crew of the Arctic expedition sloop Aurora from left, Corinne Prevot, Ilka Hadlock, Keree Smith, Mary McIntyre (author), Camilla Edwards, Florence Gross, Marie Charpentier, Not pictured: Julia Olsen. Photobomb: Voychek, one of Aurora’s deckhands.
I grew up spending my summers fishing the waters of Lake Huron. When my family…
The Survitec company, a manufacturer of survival and safety products, has launched a "virtual museum." The museum is a joint effort of the company along with the Museum of Godalming, located in Surrey, England. The museum showcases inventions and patents that…
Preparing a sailing rig for going offshore For the voyaging sailboat, your rig is your primary propulsion when offshore and should be given top priority when preparing to go offshore. The rig you have been using on weekends may have…
For those in search of fair winds, an umbrella-laden beverage and an increased sense of adventure, Cuba provides. U.S.-Cuba relations easing in December of 2014 provided an opportunity for voyagers to sail the island. One year later, we arrived to our charter in the southern Cuba port of Cienfuegos to begin a 600-nm voyage to Havana.
The Ocean Race, a crewed race around the world that has held two other names and sponsors since its inception (Whitbread Round the World Race, Volvo Ocean Race), has announced that the 14th running of the race originally scheduled to start in October 2021 will be pushed back one year to October 2022.
Sailor circled the globe navigating with the power of keen observation
Air Force looking at reviving navigation method once promoted by Edmund Halley in the 1700s
Marine systems expert and consultant Steve D'Antonio to present webinar on frequently encountered system errors
ON contributor Rebecca Childress posts a moving message on the passing of her husband, Patrick.
Internet meetings allow boat owners to keep learning via their computer screens
Live-aboard sailors and regular ON contributors battle COVID-19 in Cape Town
In this video Patrick and Rebecca Childress on the Valiant 40 Brick House head south from Richards Bay
The quarantine flag gives us time to reset and appreciate time in boats
New series of video interviews with globe girdling sailors
Even amid the COVID crisis, buoys and lights are still maintained to keep shipping lanes navigable
