Revitalize Sailing: Upgrade Your Sails for New Adventures
A cruiser shares lessons from replacing worn Dacron with modern sails and explains how new technology can improve cruising.
Expert advice and insightful tips for boat owners to navigate their ownership experience, maintain their vessels, and cruise with confidence and knowledge.
A cruiser shares lessons from replacing worn Dacron with modern sails and explains how new technology can improve cruising.
AkzoNobel’s experts share tips to protect your finish, check gear, and make spring commissioning easier.
Even seasoned sailors get seasick, but smart tactics can ease discomfort and help restore confidence underway.
From dead batteries to anchoring fails, veteran Sea Tow Captains reveal how to stay out of trouble—and off the rocks—this boating season.
New Tritone plank adds natural wood variation and environmental benefits to Flexiteek 3 platform.
Painting a boat isn’t just cosmetic—color choice, prep work and hardware removal all impact durability and long-term results.
Bring your diesel back to life with this step-by-step spring checklist to ensure reliable starts and a trouble-free season.
Misinformation about anodes is common—learn why aluminum is often the smartest, safest choice for corrosion protection.
The trick to installing a basic digital navigation network is to start with only the basics and to get the most important features.
Poultice corrosion can lead to costly repairs if it’s not caught and remedied quickly. Here’s how the pros do it.
In hindsight of our 40-year refit, we unveil the behind-the-scenes details of the project, starting with the forward head.
Learning how to inspect for small rigging problems can stop them from becoming bigger ones after you’ve left the dock.
When an unusual weather system plummeted air temps from balmy to bitter, this crew turned to cold-season comfort food.
After gathering mussels off California’s Channel Islands, one cruising couple shares their go-to curry dish from the galley.
Crunchy, nutritious, and long-lasting, cabbage is a galley go-to for sailors provisioning for offshore or coastal cruising adventures.
Too hot to cook down below? This easy grilled pizza hit the spot after a long, sweaty day of boatwork in the Mexican sun.
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West Coast Multihulls offers sailing charters and sailing instruction aboard a fleet of modern cruising catamarans.
From roller furlers to square-top mains, today’s trimarans offer big speed and smart sailhandling for coastal cruisers.
Trapped water can make stainless steel vulnerable. Learn how to prevent crevice corrosion before it leads to failure.
DIY repairs can get you farther than you realize if you suffer a tear in a place where there is no sailmaker.
Spinnakers, staysails and gollywobblers can boost a boat’s speed, along with the crew’s spirits.
Check out electric motors, repurposed sails and reef-safe sunscreens, and reduce single-use plastics on board.
While the Totem crew saw plenty of natural beauty during their circumnavigation, unfortunately they saw environmental devastation as well.
Amid stories about the declining state of the ocean, a sailor finds inspiration while sailing marine protected areas on a passage between Maine and Bermuda.
At Wake Island, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is exploring the deep into better understand what lies below the surface.
Hall of Famers Steve and Doris Colgate reflect on 60 years of sailing, teaching, and Offshore Sailing School.
Cap’n Fatty Goodlander shares how a life afloat, three circumnavigations, and countless tales were all done on a cruiser’s budget.
TowBoatUS marks Erie Canal’s bicentennial with a new video spotlighting its vital 24/7 on-water towing services for boaters.
Refine your cruising instincts with these essential seamanship skills that build safety, confidence, and resilience at sea.