Why Most World Voyages Succeed Against the Odds
After 40 years tracking global yacht movements, Cornell names the six factors that decide whether a world voyage succeeds.
After 40 years tracking global yacht movements, Cornell names the six factors that decide whether a world voyage succeeds.
Jamie Gifford sailed a Stevens 47 into 53 anchorages last year and learned what it really takes to make routing software work.
Lin Pardey has logged 240,000 miles on Seraffyn and Taleisin, but it took a Queensland marina to remind her what waiting does.
From taped seams to layered synthetics, Gary Jobson’s foul weather gear checklist was earned on a cold, wet night off Norfolk.
John Kretschmer has repowered, relaminated and rebuilt his Kaufman 47 Quetzal across 200,000 miles. Aristotle has his answer.
Crew readiness, boat prep, safety culture and pacing took one family from Mexico to French Polynesia aboard a Stevens 47.
Mark Richards grew up racing dinghies on Pittwater and still anchors there on a 70-year-old trawler he rebuilt by hand.
From SSB radio in 1986 to Starlink on a Lagoon 52F, the ARC fleet now reflects every shade of the cruising tech debate.
Where Navionics charts fail and carved canoes still outnumber fiberglass, Bougainville rewards sailors willing to show up.
From Virginia to Antigua on an Allures 45.9, Jill Gallin traded impostor syndrome for sea legs 750 miles offshore.
After 40 years tracking global yacht movements, Cornell names the six factors that decide whether a world voyage succeeds.
Jamie Gifford sailed a Stevens 47 into 53 anchorages last year and learned what it really takes to make routing software work.
Lin Pardey has logged 240,000 miles on Seraffyn and Taleisin, but it took a Queensland marina to remind her what waiting does.
From taped seams to layered synthetics, Gary Jobson’s foul weather gear checklist was earned on a cold, wet night off Norfolk.
John Kretschmer has repowered, relaminated and rebuilt his Kaufman 47 Quetzal across 200,000 miles. Aristotle has his answer.
Crew readiness, boat prep, safety culture and pacing took one family from Mexico to French Polynesia aboard a Stevens 47.
Mark Richards grew up racing dinghies on Pittwater and still anchors there on a 70-year-old trawler he rebuilt by hand.
From SSB radio in 1986 to Starlink on a Lagoon 52F, the ARC fleet now reflects every shade of the cruising tech debate.
Where Navionics charts fail and carved canoes still outnumber fiberglass, Bougainville rewards sailors willing to show up.
From Virginia to Antigua on an Allures 45.9, Jill Gallin traded impostor syndrome for sea legs 750 miles offshore.
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