In summer, or in the tropics, life aboard a sailboat can be idyllic. You might eat dinner in the cockpit,...
A good sailor hates loose gear, be it rope, boat hook or bobby pins,” writes Hervey Garrett Smith, author of...
“Have you ever been in a storm? Fallen overboard? Gone aground? Wrecked your boat?” It’s inevitable—every time a group of...
It was a beautiful late summer day in the San Juans when my wife-and-first-mate Peggy and I noticed that tiny...
The anchor snags tight and the engine shuts down. Scrambling clumsily into the cockpit, Cash, our 60-pound, three-year-old Australian shepherd,...
By the time my husband Evan and I were ready to buy our first boat we had done years of...






