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How to Choose the Right Cruising Boat for Your Sailing Goals

How to Choose the Right Cruising Boat for Your Sailing Goals Learn the key differences between catamarans and monohulls.

Vermin & Bugs & Wildlife Aboard, Oh My!

From mosquito swarms and stowaway rodents to curious wildlife, learn how experienced cruisers handle nature’s unexpected visitors.

Electronics for Show

Why celestial navigation, paper charts, and practical seamanship still matter in the age of GPS and electronics.

The Future of Sailing

The Next Generation at the Helm explores youth sailing certifications, safety, and inspiring the future of sailing.

Across Oceans

Across Oceans explores the lessons, challenges, and self discovery found through five offshore races.

Inside The Art of Teaching on the Water

Jenny Wight shares modern teaching strategies to help sailing instructors build confident, capable sailors on the water.

Why Navigation is Still a Human Skill

From stars to satellites, navigation tools evolved—but the responsibility hasn’t. Awareness, not technology, keeps sailors safe.

Yacht Clubs & the Diminishing Price Tag

Yacht Clubs and the Diminishing Price Tag explores how sailing clubs are becoming more accessible and affordable for new sailors

Hoist the Sails

Women who Sail share their stories, highlighting how growing participation and mentorship are shaping a more inclusive future for the sport.

Women Who Made History on the Water

Women Who Made History on the Water: A Voyage Through Centuries of Sail explores pirate queens, circumnavigators, and modern racers who changed sailing forever.

Frostbiting

Frostbiting: Detroit sailors launch Lasers into chilly Lake St. Clair for late-season racing, camaraderie, and one last taste of fall sailing.

Welcome to Spite Sailing

Welcome to Spite Sailing follows two women racing offshore shorthanded in pursuit of leadership, access, and adventure.

Sailing Into STEM

Sailing Into STEM explores how sailing brings science, engineering, math, and physics to life through hands-on learning.

Terror at Night

Nighttime MOB Drills and Steering Failure at Sea reveals offshore lessons in seamanship problem solving and calm under pressure

Sailing in Force 8

Sailing in Force 8: Heavy Weather and a Measure of Rum explores seamanship, preparation, and the human side of surviving heavy seas.

Anyone Can Be a Sailor. Start Here.

Anyone Can Be a Sailor. Discover how ASA 101 builds confidence, teaches the basics, and helps beginners feel at home on the water.

A Steer-less Night

A severely compromised Tayana 48 is forced to lie ahull during an all-night gale in an aborted attempt to reach the Caribbean.

Growing Sailors

Cruising with Young Children shares practical tips for safely and joyfully introducing kids to family sailing adventures.