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.
When Hurricanes Irma and Maria blasted through the British Virgin Islands in September 2017, they damaged or destroyed a fleet of vessels.
At least 76 shipping containers fell from a Maersk cargo ship underway off the Outer Banks in early March, adding to the debris problem in the world’s oceans.
Thanks to Google Maps’ “Street View” feature, anyone with a smartphone or computer can take a digital tour of the world.
I approached Nigel Calder’s latest book with the usual trepidation.
In an apparent first for the Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System (AMVER) a yachtsman off the coast of Mexico called in four ship visits before finally abandoning his boat.
From West Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale is, in my opinion, the worst part of the ICW.
The collision regulations can be a useful tool when dealing with other vessel traffic, and the Coast Pilot publications contain plenty of useful info as well.
Whether it be VHF, HF SSB or satcom, radio communications is impossible without an antenna.
There are two approaches to marine exhaust setups.
A few years ago we purchased an Iridium GO satphone unit.
The recent article by Jeff Merrill on bilge maintenance was well written and provided some excellent details and suggestions.
On my way out of the door to join my two shipmates in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, for a trans-Atlantic passage, I ripped out the November page of the North Atlantic Pilot Chart.
Satellite telephone airtime pricing has dropped considerably since Inmarsat launched the first communication satellites more than 30 years ago.
Seven Seas Cruising Association and Marine Weather Center have announced the formation of a new high-frequency radio net specifically designed to assist trans-Atlantic cruisers.
Most voyagers depend on an array of digital assets, from the basics like email, the Internet and assorted important documents, to more nautical essentials like charts, weather information and cruising guides.
A couple of years ago, good friends from Islesboro, Maine, lost their rig overboard on their 40-foot sailboat off St. John’s, Newfoundland.
When I learned to sail in San Diego, the running joke was that every year someone coming home from the Catalina islands would set their autopilot for a waypoint inside the harbor, and then run into Point Loma while they slept.
My husband Seth and I seem to have a penchant for primitivism.
La Amistad — ironically the Spanish word for friendship — was anything but that to the captured slaves forced onto the vessel in 1839.
