Old salts remember the adage not to whistle aboard a sailboat for fear of bringing high winds. But if high winds or anything else causes you to end up the...
We\'ve all seen them: the old fiberglass boats in the back of boatyards, shreds of an old winter cover wrapped around the jack stands, mottled wood on deck and piles...
");
//2
document.write("Sailing in Fog ");
document.write("
I\'m just back from a cruise along the Maine coast where we, naturally, ran into a good amount of thick fog among the islands. With one eye on the plotter,...
\n\nTrue, it\'s only mid-August, but we had been warned to expect a particularly active season, and a lot of sailors have been waiting watchfully. Of course we\'re a long way...
\n \nIt\'s the height of summer cruising in many areas, and many sailors love nothing more than anchoring in a quiet cove after a great day on the water. To...
The details are still sketchy, but a sailing misadventure on Lake Michigan this morning has taken one and possibly two lives. In the middle of the night two men and...
As a cruising sailor who races occasionally with my local yacht club, I\'m often amazed at how much money many racers spend on their boats. And maybe just a bit...
\n\nAccording to a recent story in Sail World, a British sailor wearing a lifejacket, harness, and tether is lucky to have lived through a harrowing ordeal when she was washed...
\n\nAlthough I\'ve written before rather making fun of iPhone apps that might distract sailors from the sailing experience (such as holding up your iPhone to measure wind speed by the...