A recent conversation with someone close to me who received a life-saving organ transplant made me realise how little many of us understand about organ ...

Moving the engines aft creates more interior space, but it also places the rudders ahead of the propellers. I would test low-speed maneuvering on each engine ...

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For decades, cruisers gathered in Grenada because it sat just below the hurricane box that shaped many marine insurance policies. In July 2024, Hurricane Beryl ...

Sailing Guadeloupe with the family ⛵ Another beautiful stretch of Caribbean cruising! We start out anchored in Malendure, where it’s time to tackle one of the ...

A ship's hull behaves like one enormous beam, bending through hogging and sagging as wave crests and troughs support different sections. Push that steel beyond ...

In a moving Northern Hemisphere hurricane, rotation and forward motion combine on the starboard side of its track, creating stronger winds and more violent ...

Fantome's hull was built from thousands of overlapping steel plates, caulked and fastened by hand with red-hot rivets. That was the same basic method used on ...

Rio Dulce has sheltered sailors from hurricanes for generations, but its entrance lies behind a sandbar with only five or six feet of water. A massive schooner ...

Finished in an Italian warship yard in 1927, this 282-foot yacht began as "Flying Cloud". She then passed from an English duke, to a Guinness heir, and ...

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A hurricane does not steer itself; larger wind patterns high above it, called steering currents, carry it like a cork in a river. When those currents weaken, ...

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In October 1998, the 282-foot riveted-steel schooner Fantome entered the western Caribbean with 31 people aboard and Hurricane Mitch building over the horizon. ...

Our 4-year-old Coral is taking her underwater adventures to a whole new level! 🤿🌊 We explore the incredible Réserve Cousteau in Guadeloupe, where the water is ...

At $100,000, a Lagoon 42 can look like an incredible bargain, and I think these boats make spacious, fun cruising platforms for the Caribbean. However, I would ...

Join us in Urke where we continue our adventures in the fjords of Norway. We hike the epic Urkeegga ridgeline to reach Egilbu for a long anticipated special ...

📖 English ("Be The Captain"): https://bethecaptain.com/ 🇪🇸 Español ("Sé el Capitán"): https://a.co/d/08yiAfse Tonight, you sit in the captain's chair. ...

After several years with OpenCPN and a couple of years using qtVlm as our primary navigation software across the Pacific, we're sharing what made us switch, ...

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 ...

There's something about sailing singlehanded, I can't say I really like it, but some aspects are good, I certainly wouldn't be up for a single handed around ...