For many cruisers, self-reliance is a mantra that applies to system repairs, food supplies and health care. If you ain’t...
With a quiet but definite thump, the keel touches bottom. My husband peers at me over the spiderweb of ropes...
Question: “With so many mooring buoys in our bays, many of them unoccupied, what are the rules around tying up...
A good sailor hates loose gear, be it rope, boat hook or bobby pins,” writes Hervey Garrett Smith, author of...
Whether you are 10 miles, 100 miles or a few thousand miles from shore, if things go wrong and you...
Recommissioning, sometimes called “summerizing” (in contrast to “winterizing”), is the essential second stage to the two-part process of laying-up a...