Jimmy Cornell: What It Costs to Cruise
When it comes to predicting the cost of bluewater voyaging, where you sail and how well you prepare your boat are the key factors.
When it comes to predicting the cost of bluewater voyaging, where you sail and how well you prepare your boat are the key factors.
The main saloon of our friends’ Beneteau 461 Oceanis, Chere, is typical of the type: bright, spacious, airy, heavy on the feng shui. The perfect place, in other words, for entertaining guests and enjoying commodious living aboard and cruising. I’m pretty certain Beneteau’s interior designers didn’t consider that these same attributes would also make it an ideal science lab, but there you are.
Tiny pleasures and niche solutions, absent or unavailable now for them back in the States, remind these cruisers of their time away.
Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke explore the island around Antarctica in their series, Pearls Around the White Contenent. Check out the astonishing photographs from their trip.
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. Click here for previous installments.
With the retreat of Arctic ice, boat traffic in the Northwest Passage is rising.
The Lunenburg Foundry makes stuffing boxes, cast-iron stoves, and marine engines. A visit gives new meaning to the term heavy metal. Off Watch from our December 2012 issue.
Monitoring One’s Progress Toward the Loony Bin: On a quest for self-steerage, our intrepid do-it-yourselfers attempt the impossible in the most unfeasible manner. On Watch from the December 2012 issue of Cruising World.
Sailing green, living green—it all takes work. That’s a lesson well learned in the Galápagos Islands. Editor’s Log from our December 2012 issue.
This 33-foot catboat, the reincarnation of a storied Barnegat Bay racer, is the latest success of a former Wall Streeter devoted to bringing classic wooden sailboats back to life. Yacht Style from our December 2012 issue.
I noticed a ship heading our way- CPA under1.5 ml in 45 mins… that’s too close in my book!
The autopilot rudder bar display disappeared again – while in ‘Standby’ and under windsteering….grrr!!
When it comes to predicting the cost of bluewater voyaging, where you sail and how well you prepare your boat are the key factors.
The main saloon of our friends’ Beneteau 461 Oceanis, Chere, is typical of the type: bright, spacious, airy, heavy on the feng shui. The perfect place, in other words, for entertaining guests and enjoying commodious living aboard and cruising. I’m pretty certain Beneteau’s interior designers didn’t consider that these same attributes would also make it an ideal science lab, but there you are.
Tiny pleasures and niche solutions, absent or unavailable now for them back in the States, remind these cruisers of their time away.
Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke explore the island around Antarctica in their series, Pearls Around the White Contenent. Check out the astonishing photographs from their trip.
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. Click here for previous installments.
With the retreat of Arctic ice, boat traffic in the Northwest Passage is rising.
The Lunenburg Foundry makes stuffing boxes, cast-iron stoves, and marine engines. A visit gives new meaning to the term heavy metal. Off Watch from our December 2012 issue.
Monitoring One’s Progress Toward the Loony Bin: On a quest for self-steerage, our intrepid do-it-yourselfers attempt the impossible in the most unfeasible manner. On Watch from the December 2012 issue of Cruising World.
Sailing green, living green—it all takes work. That’s a lesson well learned in the Galápagos Islands. Editor’s Log from our December 2012 issue.
This 33-foot catboat, the reincarnation of a storied Barnegat Bay racer, is the latest success of a former Wall Streeter devoted to bringing classic wooden sailboats back to life. Yacht Style from our December 2012 issue.
I noticed a ship heading our way- CPA under1.5 ml in 45 mins… that’s too close in my book!
The autopilot rudder bar display disappeared again – while in ‘Standby’ and under windsteering….grrr!!
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