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 ...

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 ...

In early June, we had the opportunity to cruise on a Dragonfly 28 “Touring” in Denmark’s “South Sea”. After a full week of sailing with the entire family over hundreds of miles, varied weather ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since 1851, before the Civil War, American sailors have held or challenged for the America’s Cup, a sailboat regatta to determine what nation or nation-syndicate is the best in the world. So, it was ...

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 ...

We’re soon going to be in the spring and early summer migration and offshore event season and so our thoughts turn to the gear we’ll need to be safe out there. We’ll need the foul weather gear for 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 ...

The Seaward 32RK was designed and for years built by Floridian Nick Hake. The design is now part of the Island Packet company which builds the Island Packet line of cruising boats as well as the Blue ...