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Cruising: Sailing With a Young Family
The dark is alive when you are surrounded by water. Black is tinted blue and silver, and sky meets surf with electricity and the lapping sounds of silence. Inside our 36ft catamaran, moored off Cooper Island in the BVI, the raw nature outside, just now settling down from a late ...read more
A Boat Delivery to Florida via Cuba
The proposal struck a chord: Jock, an old sailing buddy, had his Pacific Seacraft 37, Annie, in Puerto Rico and welcomed hands to bring her back to Florida for sale. And since Cuba was opening up, Havana would be the intermediate destination. Jock was a colleague from Foreign ...read more
How to Properly Use a Windvane
There is a definite learning curve to overcome when using a mechanical self-steering windvane for the first time. A vane can’t follow a compass heading and a boat’s sails must be balanced for it to work well. Because of this, many sailors new to vanes get discouraged and ...read more