A most impressive sextant
If you were stranded on a small atoll and needed a sextant for your rescue voyage, you’d have no choice but to make…
Gear thoughts after an offshore passage
Recently, I completed an offshore trip that included periods of heavy weather. We were aboard Nostos, a 2001 Sabre 402, departed from Jamestown, RI on…
The Manila Galleons
When the Spanish empire expanded in the mid-1500s to include New Spain (Mexico) and as far west as the Philippine…
Coast Guard tests unmanned surface vessels off Hawaii
Someday soon, the USCG surface vessel that responds to your distress call might be an…
A digital sextant
Sextants are wonderfully analog optical devices. A sextant user from the 1850s would have little problem using a modern sextant. Now a company in South Korea has begun offering something it calls the Korea Digital Sextant (KDS) that digitalizes…
Terra Nova and Scott of the Antarctic
Best remembered as the ship that carried Robert Scott on his ill-fated voyage to the Antarctic in 1910, Terra Nova (new land) survived the…
BioBase by C-MAP Launches New Subscription Model
Egersund, Norway – C-MAP®, a leader in digital marine cartography and cloud-based mapping, announced today it has opened its BioBase™ EcoSound™ platform to include free subscriptions to qualifying organizations. Owned by Navico and operated through C-MAP, BioBase is a platform for aquatic…
Jolie Brise rescues Adriana
Jolie Brise, which is roughly translated as “nice breeze,” is perhaps one of the most famous yachts of the 20th century; more than 100 years after her launch, the vessel is still plying the waters of the Atlantic. She’s a…
September/October Issue 264: What’s a son supposed to do?
Juan Manuel Ballestero, a 47-year-old sailor, had a problem.
July/August Issue 263: Mid-ocean plague ship disaster
As we experience the disjointing of our lives during this pandemic, it is useful to put it in historical perspective.
Geographic range of a light
Lighthouse visibility is available on charts, both paper and digital, and is stated in terms of nominal range.
