Early-season hurricanes often form far across the Atlantic, giving sailors time to watch them develop and track their approach. In October, the western ...

Sharks, rocks, and pirates are not what scare me most when I sail offshore. Hurricanes are unpredictable, impossible to outrun, and powerful enough to ...

In October of 1998, a 282-foot four-masted schooner called the Fantome sailed into the western Caribbean with 31 crew members aboard and a hurricane building ...

Standing rigging progresses from standard 1×19 wire to compact strand and finally to solid rod, with each step increasing strength and stiffness while reducing ...

A 12-inch change made while building the Valiant 40 left its sail plan out of balance with the keel. Adding a bowsprit corrected the problem, improved the ...

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This 2012 Hughes 40 weighs less than five tons despite its 40-foot length and massive 30-foot beam, giving it the ingredients to be an exceptionally fast ...

The Antigua 58 Pilothouse is spacious, unusual, and packed with features that could make it somebody’s dream cruising boat. It may be a good boat, but the ...

Sailing Our Damaged Catamaran to Trinidad We're sailing our damaged catamaran south through the Caribbean, island hoping from Guadeloupe towards Trinidad, ...

Dutch builders have generations of experience producing beautiful steel and aluminum boats capable of cruising anywhere in the world. Koopmans yachts combine ...

Two things have really changed the way we live at anchor this season. The first is our custom anchor alarm, which means we can both sleep easier at night. The ...

A deeper keel places more weight farther below the boat, helping it resist quick rolling and feel stiffer in the waves. Like the pendulum on a grandfather ...

This time on Distant Shores we make a 2-week passage across the Atlantic Ocean, a first-time experience for our crew members, Noel and Tracey. Along the way we ...

There's a bit of a stereotype about the Finns in the sailing world...but not a bad one. Finland is home to respected builders such as Baltic and Nauticat, and ...

This 60 year old Sparkman & Stephens yacht has an incredible pedigree, a valuable mast, and a recently reduced asking price. The aluminum hull could still ...

An older fiberglass boat will usually have obsolete electronics, aging wiring, and at least a few places where water gets inside. The important question is not ...

The Cal name became famous through successful designs like the legendary Cal 40, but the Cal 44 came from a very different period in the company’s history. ...

Cooper sailboats can be good performers, but their large acrylic windows were not always engineered with enough frame overlap. Once the adhesive begins to ...

Have We Made a Huge Mistake? Last week we wept as Declan and Ivan sailed off to Mexico to join a sailing cargo ship bound for the northern Atlantic and ...

This Robert Harris design was built by Ta Yang in Taiwan and earned a reputation as a stout bluewater cruiser. Unfortunately, the original teak decks also ...

This episode starts right after a night with thunder and lightning and we share what we do to protect ourselves. We visit the cosy town Azure on Elba before we ...

@boatfools #Norseman447 #RobertyPerry #bluewatercruiser #sailing #yachttours We Tour a Norseman 447: Is This the Perfect Offshore Sailboat? | A $139,500 Bob ...

In the 1960s, multihulls were considered dangerous outcasts of the sailing world. Two pioneering designers disappeared at sea without a trace, leaving behind ...

The night that the Rose-Noëlle flipped, it had a parachute anchor out...but the parachute itself is not what failed. Its trip line wrapped around the parachute ...