Essential Cruising Skills: Planning Alternative or Bail Out Ports
Successful offshore passages begin with Proper Passage Planning and, every passage plan should include information about your primary destination as...
Essential Skills – Moving about on Deck
Yes, that is snow and ice on deck and, yes, we are going sailing! Knowing how to safely move about...
Essential Skills-Patience
Patience, Websters defines Patience as being able to tolerate delays without becoming annoyed or anxious. I think of it as...
Essential Skills-Standing Watch
By International law, every vessel at sea is responsible for having someone “On Watch” around the clock and it is...
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...