The new National Maritime Operations Centre (NMOC) in Hampshire, England has become operational for the very first time. Operations from Solent Coastguard, which looks after Hampshire, Isle of ...

Funny how the beginning and end of a voyage can parallel each other, even when they’re three years and thousands of miles apart (published April 2016) In 2011, when I set off from the U.S. East Coast ...

As we motored the new Catalina 275 out of Annapolis and into the Chesapeake Bay on a cloudy almost windless afternoon that was threatening showers, I felt the liveliness of the tiller and rudder in my ...

In late August sailing legend John Guzzwell passed away at age 94. He died peacefully at his home near Seattle, Washington, with his wife Dorothy by his side. I am lucky enough to have met John on ...

When compared to other tropical cruising paradises, French Polynesia is the least likely to suffer hurricanes or cyclones (published March 2018) After the devastating 2017 hurricane season in the ...

Previously published in BWS by Pete Dubler. About six months before leaving for full time cruising, we decided to spend some time practicing with our spinnaker. We had almost two years of sailing on ...

BWS takes a look back at some of the famous, notable and most influential small boat cruies of all time…and many are Americans (published July 2014) You could say that the modern age of shorthanded ...

Mustang Survival’s latest inflatable PFD, the Atlas 190 DLX Hammar incorporates everything the highly respected marine safety company has learned about PFDs over the last four decades. This new, ...

It is always instructive to read cruising notes from veteran offshore sailors who know the cruising game well and know the landfall they are writing about from a host of first-hand experiences. Such ...

The spirit of adventure, curiosity, and search for human connections we share with our readers led us to careers in foreign affairs two decades ago. Last year, it inspired us to sail across the North ...

Rapido has built an avid following amongst performance oriented cruisers even though the yard is small, it is in Viet Nam, and the boats are all-carbon and very high-tech. It doesn’t hurt that the ...

Over a long sailing career and with a hundred thousand miles under my keel, I am fortunate to be able to say I’ve never been faced with a man overboard emergency. But, that doesn’t mean it won’t ...