Voyagers in need
Live-aboard sailors and regular ON contributors battle COVID-19 in Cape Town
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Graphic depth sounders for cruisers
An important function of a chartplotter aboard today’s cruising yacht is its sonar bottom-scanning system.
Sailing on the South African Coast
In this video Patrick and Rebecca Childress on the Valiant 40 Brick House head south from Richards Bay
Sleep deprivation
You are headed into rough weather and thinking to yourself that you’re not going to get much sleep in the next few days.
Weathering the pandemic
The global coronavirus pandemic has affected all of our lives in countless ways, and ocean voyagers are no exception.
While flying the yellow flag
The quarantine flag gives us time to reset and appreciate time in boats
SSCA launches Circumnavigator's Summit
New series of video interviews with globe girdling sailors
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Aids to Navigation work continues
Even amid the COVID crisis, buoys and lights are still maintained to keep shipping lanes navigable
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
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
