Essential Skills – Sailing at Night
Sailing at night away from city lights is an experience no one should miss, millions of stars and meteors overhead,...
Essential Skills – Anchoring Etiquette
Nearly everyone who is cruising anchors out every night. Anchorages can be small and crowded, large with space for all...
Essential Cruising Skills-Reefing
Thinking about heading out over the horizon for one of those exotic landfalls you have read about in one of...
Hose and Hose Clamp Failure
A common failure point and one that can have disastrous consequences is Hose failure. Whether the hose is carrying water,...
Change of Plans
Cruising along the US East Coast and the Bahamas in the fall and winter into spring, weather conditions can be...
Read your chart
This article originally posted on my old blog January 2017 OK, Lesson for today, Read your charts and watch where...
Spare Parts
Spare parts….spares for everything, you are going to need them! Living aboard full time is hard on gear, add in...
Welcome
Welcome to “Lessons From an Old Salt”! On these pages and via video I hope to pass on 40+years and...