Rhumb Lines

You don’t have to spend much time in the sailing world to recognize it is filled with some of the planet’s most creative, good-spirited...

Rigger Glenn Mooney of Yacht Riggers in St. Petersburg, Florida has no choice but to be organized. A veteran rigger with more than three...

Amidst the excitement of launch day—your desire to be back in the water, and the yard’s eagerness to make room for another customer (chaching)—...

My last big haulout was careening an old wooden boat on a mud flat in Benoa Harbor, Bali. We had hired a crew of...

During our decade of cruising, my partner and I spent most of our days within 20 degrees of the equator. In many tropical ports...

The forlorn monuments to Sisyphus are clustered in one corner of the boatyard where the summer weeds grow tall. They arrive by towboat, strapped...

Twenty-one years ago, my planned four-year circumnavigation was going on its 11th year. (If you’re young and broke, that’s precisely how a four-year circumnavigation...

At the height of the pandemic last summer, a sailing-surfing pal I knew from my days on Guam (a great place to rebuild the...

In the year 2000, when I stepped off of ye ol’ Tosca and into the roles of full time sailing editor, husband, and father,...

This month’s study in multihull stability reminded me how deep an impression that first multihull capsize can leave on a sailor. I grew up...