The fastest part of seasickness to fix is your muscles. Getting behind the wheel and taking some control helps your brain settle, and if you're too sick to ...

Spring in Newfoundland isn’t making boat work easy. Rain, cold, and wind keep delaying the big projects, but Steve is still getting deck work done one small ...

If your passage runs longer than three days, bring crew - with five or six aboard you can run a revolving watch and only stand two night watches every five ...

Billionaire or broke, it makes no difference offshore. Sometimes you're just putting karma in the bank for the night it's your turn, and that's a fine reason ...

Seasickness is your body trying to purge a poison that was never there, triggered when your eyes, inner ear, and muscles stop agreeing on what's happening. ...

On a well-built offshore boat, keel bolts are torqued at the factory and designed never to be touched. Production boats are a different story, but if you're on ...

When your autopilot dies offshore, you need a backup plan. Two bungee cords and properly trimmed sails can keep you on course for thousands of miles on a ...

We are pausing our regular Sunday episode schedule because something serious has happened. Tim and I, along with friends, were attacked by someone with a ...

A full-keel boat like the Tayana 37 tracks with minimal input and keeps the rudder well protected from grounding damage. For offshore work, those trade-offs ...

350 miles offshore and a restricted vessel calls "sécurité" on channel 16. It's up to you to understand what that means and act accordingly. You get on the ...

🚨 THE BOAT FINALLY DOESN’T SMELL LIKE A SWAMP… 🚨 This week aboard Sailing UV, we tackle one of the nastiest problems we’ve had living on the boat… the shower ...

Median yacht length has increased every year since 1960. This Pacific Seacraft 61 is a good look at where things are heading. 📗 Get My Book: ...

The passage to Easter Island can be straightforward or it can beat you up for weeks. The year you go matters more than you think. 📗 Get My Book: ...

A skeg protects the rudder and gives it two bearing points instead of one. Losing your rudder offshore is a serious emergency, and improvised fixes don't hold ...

1,800 miles from the nearest road and the autopilot is in pieces on my lap. It didn't fail in a storm - it failed in 15 knots and 3-foot waves. The boat just ...

Before Robert Perry's Valiant 40, you were either on a fast racing boat or a slow full-keel cruiser. His decision to combine a fin keel with a skeg-protected ...

The storm was coming — and we had to get to a good shelter. In Episode 58 of Sailing Into the Mystic, we finally say goodbye to Ensenada and head south down ...

Lin and Larry Pardey logged hundreds of thousands of miles on small boats. I'm starting to see the light of their message - smaller means lower costs and more ...

Last remaining task before departing Ensenada was to fill the water tanks. Ten trips to a water vending machine in Ensenada. It ate my coins, spit out my ...

Cheap gear usually becomes expensive gear eventually. You buy the cheaper option, spend hours installing it, then replace it months later with the thing you ...

We drove past this thing for months. When we finally stopped — we were not prepared. This Devil’s Castle is somewhere between Rosarito and Ensenada, Baja ...

Not everyone can take months off to sail — but that doesn't mean you can't get real offshore experience. The Atlantic is full of passages that will take you ...

Most watermakers don’t fail because they’re old - they fail because they’re neglected. Membranes get destroyed, systems corrode internally, and owners skip ...

Three broken tools. Zero replacements bought. This is budget sailing in real life — and somehow it all worked out. Full build in Ep. 56 🛠️ #sailing #boatlife ...