Darrell Nicholson, editor of Practical Sailor, grew up boating on Miami’s Biscayne Bay on everything from prams to Morgan ketches. Two years out of
Emory University, after a brief stint as a sportswriter, he set out from Miami aboard a 60-year-old wooden
William Atkin ketch named Tosca. For 10 years, he and his girlfriend Theresa Gibbons explored the Caribbean, crossed the Pacific, and cruised Southeast Asia aboard Tosca, working along the way as journalists and documenting their adventures for various travel and sailing publications, including
Cruising World,
Sail,
Sailing,
Cruising Helmsman, and
Sailing World. Upon his return to land life, Darrell became the associate editor, then senior editor at
Cruising World magazine, where he worked for five years. Before taking on the editor’s position at Practical Sailor, Darrell was the editor of
Offshore magazine, a boating-lifestyle magazine serving the New England area. Darrell has won multiple awards from
Boating Writer’s International, including the Monk Farnham award for editorial excellence. He holds a
U.S. Coast Guard 100-ton Master license and has worked as a harbor pilot and skippered a variety of commercial charter boats.
