Our delivery vehicle lies in Bermuda, ūmid-passage.

At Practical Sailor we field a lot of questions about offshore sailing, the pursuit of which some take as a matter of course, others see as sort of a holy grail, and still others are content to regard from a distance. In any case, an offshore passage is a true adventure, the lessons from which tend to come in concentrated form.

At any given time, it seems that at least one of our regular contributors is offshore—along with what must be a fair proportion of readers, judging from e-mail addresses and hailing locales reported in letters. …