The Salty Dawg Sailing association has two summer rallies that are still open and both offer a chance to experience blue ...

This week we heard from our friends and associates at the Cruising Club of America regarding their current research project ...

Last year, it inspired us to sail across the North Atlantic Ocean aboard our sloop Windrush to our new jobs in Rome. Along ...

With the war underway in the Middle East and the likely unfavorable conditions for a Red Sea transit this spring, the migrating cruising fleet in Asia has started to alter plans. Some, as we reported ...

For the foreseeable future, most American sailing cruisers will be running their boats on diesel engines and fossil fuel. That’s just the common-sense fact. For seasonal sailing cruisers, we can go 10 ...

Well, here’s some good news to share this week. Last Friday, Great Lakes Rigging and Supply announced that it had purchased Tartan Yachts of Plaineville, Ohio from Michael Reardon who had acquired the ...

Brian and Karen Trautman and their daughter Sierra will be well known as one of YouTube’s most popular cruising vlogers. They have been cruising for 15 years and creating high quality videos for 13.

Sometimes refining a well proven design reaps better results than starting with a blank sheet of paper since the designers and builders can learn from and improve on an already successful model. Such ...

Florida builder Island Packet Yachts, one of only a few sailboat builders in North America, recently added a new 42-foot motor sailer to their fleet. Designed by IPY founder Bob Johnson and the IPY ...

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On April 30, Daedalus Yachts founder Michael Reardon announced that he and his company had acquired Catalina Yachts and its sister company True North. The announcement signals both a major shift in ...

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