Cruising America’s Great Loop Part One
By John Simons Our Great Loop adventure took one year and covered 6,500 miles. We departed from Waukegan Harbor in mid-September 2015 and, after making …
Beat the Winter Blues in the BVIs
By Larry MacDonald In early February 2019, a polar vortex rolled across a wide swath of Canada and the northern U.S., bringing record-shattering low temperatures; …
Transiting the Swinomish Channel
By Michael Guelker-Cone Most of us have a bucket list of things we want to accomplish or places we want to go before heading off …
Nature Takes Charge in Isle Royale National Park
By Emmarie Raby The crossing from Grand Portage, Minnesota, to Windigo at Isle Royale National Park takes you over 24 miles of open water. Because …
Rounding the Horn
By Rafael Belliard When my first mate Linda, the perennial travel opportunities researcher, found the perfect way to round the cape, we decided to make …
Teaching Celestial Navigation
By Dick Sorensen On a cloudless Ohio winter day, Dr. Ralph Newman of Columbus Sail & Power Squadron/29 led 20-plus Ohio State University Naval Reserve …
Cruising Around the Horn
By Rafael Belliard Going around South America’s Cape Horn has always been fraught with awe and understandable concerns about ships wrecked by rough seas, icebergs, …
Sailing into a Storm
By Randy White I recently returned from sailing my new boat from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to Marmaris, Turkey, a voyage of 1,453 nautical miles …
Off-season charter in Belize brings wealth of adventure
By Peter Baumgartner Photos by Denisse Allaire My first mate, Denisse Allaire, and I chartered a Beneteau 42.3 sailboat for a week in September from …
Sailor satiates wanderlust, grows at helm on the Salish Sea
By Patrick O’Brien After years of living in Boulder, Colorado, we moved to Oriental, North Carolina, to cruise the Atlantic coast and beyond on a …
Back to the Sea
Learning to slow down and enjoy cruising By Laura Landis I’ll never make up the 18 years I spent too far from the sea. I …
Greece is the word
Planning and sailing a charter boat in the Dodecanese Islands By Van Diehl Fulfilling a lifelong dream of sailing to faraway destinations, my wife, Cida, …
