Safety & Seamanship

It's 2,200 miles from Raiatea to New Zealand and it's late winter. Calypso plans a very long passage.

Fire & Flame GuardIt's a clich but also true that theres nothing as scary as a fire on a boat, or anywhere else for...

ACR and National Airborne Technology have taken two distinct approaches to transmitting position data along with distress signals. We favor NATs integral GPS over ACRs peripheral connection, but its twice as expensive.

Calypso dashes from French Polynesia to Auckland, New Zealand, just in time for the start of the America's Cup trials.

Results of the Sailing Foundation's tests of 25 harnesses. One fails catastrophically.

Our annual selection of outstanding equipment, headlined this year by the Spade anchor, Nexus instruments and the Isotemp water heater.

When I moved from Michigan to Rhode Island in 1980, sailing my old Pearson Triton through the lakes, canals and Hudson River, it never...

Calypso dashes from French Polynesia to Auckland, New Zealand, just in time for the start of the America's Cup trials.

One characteristic shared by virtually all tropical cruising boats is some form of deck awning. These vary in quality and design from an old...

In New Zealand at last, Nick Nicholson itemizes a long list of maintenance and repair jobs for Calypso.