Guide to Tactical Gate Roundings

A leeward gate rounding, especially a crowded one, provides opportunities to pass boats and set up for the next leg.

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Shifting Gears in the Abacos

Professional sailor Paul Campbell-James leaves the SailGP racecoures behind and escapes to the Bahamas for some bareboat R&R.

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Will a Woman Win the Golden Globe Race?

I’ve been waiting since the 1990s, when I developed a crush of sorts on Isabelle Autissier, for a woman to win an around-the-world solo sailing race. A tantalizing prospect! This is the toughest, most extreme sport there is, but it is also that great rarity—a sport where women and men compete …

Seamanship Strategy: Planning for Uncertainty

September 16 was supposed to be the closing date on the sale of Icebear, our Swan 59. We’d had a contract in place since May with the buyer, a nonprofit that was set to purchase the boat along with the $40,000 entry fee in the retro round-the-world Ocean Globe Race (OGR), which we’d signed up for. …

Come, service your yacht in Trinidad and Tobago

SAILTrinidad and Tobago’s strategic geographic location below the hurricane belt positions the country as an attractive location over other territories in the region for storage, repair and maintenance services. During the Atlantic Hurricane Season (June 1 to November 30), some Caribbean islands …

Top 10 Best Boats Review: Balance 442

Features include: • Daggerboards for upwind performance • Option for Integrel power generation • Versa-Helm serving upper and protected lower helm When you do multiple boat tests in a short period of time the experiences can blur, so when a design sticks out, you know it’s notable. And the robust …

The Boy Who Fell To Shore: A Hardcore Voyage from Puerto Rico to Brazil

You absolutely cannot make this stuff up! The true story of Thomas Tangvald—born and raised at sea, orphaned in a wreck and cast ashore at age 15—is finding traction with both sailors and land folk fascinated by “the freedom one finds in any life close to nature.” I have many interesting pix that …

Top Tips for Gunkholing

You climb from your berth and start the stove for coffee, warming the cabin. You check your position, looking out the ports as the sun is about to rise. The pristine forest of an uninhabited island is visible out one port, open water out the other. The great lake, Lake Michigan, is glass. You open …

The Legacy of La Amistad

Life for enslaved Africans working on early American plantations was bleak, but among the worst atrocities committed during this period was the transatlantic trafficking operation itself. It is difficult to overstate the horrors experienced aboard these ships. By 1814, most nations formally …

Seamanship: Timing is Everything with East Coast Canals

Cruising the Maine coast in our own boat has been a long-held dream for me and my wife, Kris. Last summer we made it reality on a four-month cruise aboard Orion, our 1987 Sabre 38, from southwest Florida to Maine and back to Virginia. After traveling the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), which provides …