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Najad 570

A powerful center-cockpit sloop makes a fitting Scandinavian flagship.

Ydine Sandberg and Steve Walicki, each in their late 20s, set careers aside to sail across the South Pacific aboard a 30-foot Rawson.

We Can Work Later

Young couples breathe new life into some older production boats to pull off their dreams of voyaging.

The active lifestyle of living aboard helps keep Carolyn and Fatty fit and trim.

Avoiding Floating Docs

Throughout many far-ranging adventures, the crew of Wild Card have managed to treat onboard medical emergencies without insurance.

The author's Beneteau 38, Bagheera, is surrounded by blue-flowering water hyacinths that come and go with the tide of the waterways of the Orinoco Delta.

Interlude on the Orinoco

In the vast Venezuelan delta south of bustling, crowded Trinidad lie the distinct sounds and sights of the jungle.

Secured with lines to shore, Northern Light lies at anchor at Melchior Island, her crew's jumping-off point for the return to South America after their Antarctic Peninsula visit.

Pearls Around the White Continent Part IV: Home, Sweet Home

In Part IV of this five-part series, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke, on board their 40-foot steel ketch, Northern Light, return to places on the Antarctic Peninsula that they first visited in 1984. Their pleasure turns to dismay, however, when they become witnesses to the profound affects brought to the region by climate change.

The Hockleys set sail in 2007 for a 10-year circumnavigation on board Dream Time, their Cabo Rico 38.

Running the Pass

For these sailors in French Polynesia, the lure of the atoll’s calm anchorage and a good night’s sleep outweigh the barricade of breaking seas.

Osprey Departures

Leap of Faith

Readying the boat for offshore sailing is only part of the jump from land to sea.

Tom and Doris Nurenberg joined fellow cruisers at Mario’s Marina, on Guatemala’s Río Dulce, to wait out hurricane season.

Resting on the Rio Dulce

Sometimes it’s hard to stop sailing, even for hurricane season, but fellow cruisers can make it a whole lot easier.

O Tannenbaum

Wendy Mittman Clarke’s classic reminds us that holidays have a way of making a cruiser homesick, until you start to consider what home really is.

Najad 570

A powerful center-cockpit sloop makes a fitting Scandinavian flagship.

Ydine Sandberg and Steve Walicki, each in their late 20s, set careers aside to sail across the South Pacific aboard a 30-foot Rawson.

We Can Work Later

Young couples breathe new life into some older production boats to pull off their dreams of voyaging.

The active lifestyle of living aboard helps keep Carolyn and Fatty fit and trim.

Avoiding Floating Docs

Throughout many far-ranging adventures, the crew of Wild Card have managed to treat onboard medical emergencies without insurance.

The author's Beneteau 38, Bagheera, is surrounded by blue-flowering water hyacinths that come and go with the tide of the waterways of the Orinoco Delta.

Interlude on the Orinoco

In the vast Venezuelan delta south of bustling, crowded Trinidad lie the distinct sounds and sights of the jungle.

Secured with lines to shore, Northern Light lies at anchor at Melchior Island, her crew's jumping-off point for the return to South America after their Antarctic Peninsula visit.

Pearls Around the White Continent Part IV: Home, Sweet Home

In Part IV of this five-part series, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke, on board their 40-foot steel ketch, Northern Light, return to places on the Antarctic Peninsula that they first visited in 1984. Their pleasure turns to dismay, however, when they become witnesses to the profound affects brought to the region by climate change.

The Hockleys set sail in 2007 for a 10-year circumnavigation on board Dream Time, their Cabo Rico 38.

Running the Pass

For these sailors in French Polynesia, the lure of the atoll’s calm anchorage and a good night’s sleep outweigh the barricade of breaking seas.

Osprey Departures

Leap of Faith

Readying the boat for offshore sailing is only part of the jump from land to sea.

Tom and Doris Nurenberg joined fellow cruisers at Mario’s Marina, on Guatemala’s Río Dulce, to wait out hurricane season.

Resting on the Rio Dulce

Sometimes it’s hard to stop sailing, even for hurricane season, but fellow cruisers can make it a whole lot easier.

O Tannenbaum

Wendy Mittman Clarke’s classic reminds us that holidays have a way of making a cruiser homesick, until you start to consider what home really is.

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