How Solo Sailing Makes You a Better Sailor
No audience, no pressure and a tiller extension: how Lin Pardey spent an afternoon making useful mistakes on her own.
No audience, no pressure and a tiller extension: how Lin Pardey spent an afternoon making useful mistakes on her own.
The amateur dropping anchor on a neighbor, the expert who arrives first and the old salt who can fix anything already aboard.
From foul-weather gear off Virginia to barefoot in Antigua, a meridian passage makes distance something you can actually touch.
A Grand Soleil 39, two surfer sons, a Peace Corps past and a no-plan plan that has kept the Cross family moving since 2019.
Richard and Ali Hadida set sail around the world with a toddler aboard an Oyster 885—before the window closes for good.
Lin Pardey has logged 240,000 miles on Seraffyn and Taleisin, but it took a Queensland marina to remind her what waiting does.
John Kretschmer has repowered, relaminated and rebuilt his Kaufman 47 Quetzal across 200,000 miles. Aristotle has his answer.
Mark Richards grew up racing dinghies on Pittwater and still anchors there on a 70-year old trawler he lovingly converted into a comfy coastal cruiser.
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.
On a 5,000-mile passage from South America to the Caribbean, six kids and a broken spreader bar changed everything.
A son reflects on a century of life, a lifetime of ocean miles, and a father who led by letting you figure it out.
No audience, no pressure and a tiller extension: how Lin Pardey spent an afternoon making useful mistakes on her own.
The amateur dropping anchor on a neighbor, the expert who arrives first and the old salt who can fix anything already aboard.
From foul-weather gear off Virginia to barefoot in Antigua, a meridian passage makes distance something you can actually touch.
A Grand Soleil 39, two surfer sons, a Peace Corps past and a no-plan plan that has kept the Cross family moving since 2019.
Richard and Ali Hadida set sail around the world with a toddler aboard an Oyster 885—before the window closes for good.
Lin Pardey has logged 240,000 miles on Seraffyn and Taleisin, but it took a Queensland marina to remind her what waiting does.
John Kretschmer has repowered, relaminated and rebuilt his Kaufman 47 Quetzal across 200,000 miles. Aristotle has his answer.
Mark Richards grew up racing dinghies on Pittwater and still anchors there on a 70-year old trawler he lovingly converted into a comfy coastal cruiser.
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.
On a 5,000-mile passage from South America to the Caribbean, six kids and a broken spreader bar changed everything.
A son reflects on a century of life, a lifetime of ocean miles, and a father who led by letting you figure it out.
Sign up for Cruising World emails to receive features on travel destinations, event listings and product reviews as well as special offers on behalf of Cruising World’s partners.
By signing up you agree to receive communications from Cruising World and select partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You may opt out of email messages/withdraw consent at any time.
