Aids to Navigation work continues
Even amid the COVID crisis, buoys and lights are still maintained to keep shipping lanes navigable
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Selecting the right VHF antenna
A flash of white light broke the darkness as Saltaire motor-bashed into a light gale late one night in the Bay of Panama.
A harbor to ride it out
A voyager looks at the value of a home port in times of crisis
Dealing with hull blisters
In his latest video, voyager Patrick Childress repairs a fleet of hull blisters
An ominous reminder to register your EPIRB
Investigation of an unregistered beacon hit reveals only a debris field
The cutting edge in EPIRBs
Since emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs) made their debut as an aid for tracking crashed U.S. military aircraft in the 1950s, this technology has steadily evolved into more compact, highly accurate, life-saving devices priced well within the budget of any serious cruising sailor.
2019 Chuck Husick Award Winner
An app from OCENs takes the Husick award for making email via satellite easy
2019 Chuck Husick Marine Technology Award nominees
Every year Ocean Navigator gives the Chuck Husick Marine Technology Award to an innovative marine product that makes voyaging better and easier. Chuck was an esteemed writer and contributing editor for Ocean Navigator who made a big impact on the marine…
GPS smartwatches
The race to combine a wide assortment of technology in small, hand-held wearable devices has recently yielded a new animal: the GPS-capable smartwatch.
Hull cleaning video tips
Liveaboard voyagers give us some ideas on keeping a boat bottom clean in this latest video
Deciding on a weather window
Departure decisions were simpler long ago
Voyagers discuss whale strikes
In this video voyagers review what to do after an encounter with a whale
Figure Eight voyage complete
Sailor Randall Reeves has traced a huge figure eight in the world's oceans in a single year
AIS/GPS VHF with target display
AIS, GPS and a VHF radio with DSC are all must-haves on the modern cruising yacht. Now imagine having all of these features in one device.
Hurricane Humberto
The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season has been rather active so far, and the historic peak of the season, which is Sept. 10, is two weeks in the rear-view mirror at the time of this newsletter.
Apologies to Attainable Adventure Cruising and John Harries
Setting straight a photo misuse and correcting a false implication
Former Figaro boats will provide offshore opportunity
Newly formed Collegiate Offshore Sailing Circuit offers Figaro 2 boats to college sailing teams
Teenage climate activist will sail to New York
To avoid flying Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg will take race boat across Atlantic
Uncertain fate awaits last sail tanker
Challenges face effort to return Falls of Clyde to Glasgow, Scotland
Traditional depth sounders
Traditional depth sounders seem to get short shrift in dockside conversation these days, owing of course to the proliferation of multifunction chartplotters and the array of information they offer to cruisers with fingertip ease.
Heading north or south
As we have passed the summer solstice, many U.S. ocean voyagers may be heading north or south of the border.
Navigating to Mars
Crossing oceans is easier with GPS atomic clocks, now NASA to launch atomic clock to help spacecraft navigate
EP Carry Sponsoring R2AK
North Bend, Wash. — PropEle Electric Boat Motors, the innovation leader in portable electric propulsion, announced today its electric motor brand, EP Carry, is a sponsor of the R2AK – Race to Alaska regatta. R2AK is the first of its…
Coast Guard rescues voyagers off New Jersey
USCG Dolphin helo hoisted sailors to safety from capsized boat 65 miles east of Atlantic City
