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...
The Handy Billy-Old School Power
In the age winches to help us lift loads didn’t exist, Block and Tackles were used everywhere to reduce loads...
Fog and Reduced Visibility
Fog, one environmental condition that most sailors hate. It is one of those things you either like or dislike. Personally,...
Electronics and Navigation
Over the years there have been a lot of arguments concerning the pros and cons of paper charts vs chart...
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...
Sailing Fundamentals: 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...