Are We Taking Sailing Tales to the Extreme?
The first issue of our 48th year of publication is as good a time as any to play curmudgeon. So let’s talk about the...
8 Bells for Ted Brewer
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...
New Lifelines for a New Life
Rigger Glenn Mooney of Yacht Riggers in St. Petersburg, Florida has no choice but to be organized. A veteran rigger with more than three...
Boatyard Launch Logistics
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)—...
Doomed by Pride and Envy
My last big haulout was careening an old wooden boat on a mud flat in Benoa Harbor, Bali. We had hired a crew of...
Tips on Beating the Heat at Sea
During our decade of cruising, my partner and I spent most of our days within 20 degrees of the equator. In many tropical ports...
Zen and the Art of the Endless Refit
The forlorn monuments to Sisyphus are clustered in one corner of the boatyard where the summer weeds grow tall. They arrive by towboat, strapped...
Introducing Sweet Opal
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...
Buying a Boat? Insight into the Owner Helps.
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...
Bridging the Ocean Between Us
In the year 2000, when I stepped off of ye ol’ Tosca and into the roles of full time sailing editor, husband, and father,...
Video: Beneteau 361 – Full Review
Should you buy an older Beneteau sailboat? In this Practical Sailor boat review and yacht tour, we examine the Beneteau Oceanis 361 to see...
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