#TBT: Savoring the Fall Cruising Season
In our latest Throwback Thursday, 48° North Editor Andy Cross offers up some tips for fall cruising success in the Pacific Northwest. With Yahtzee in a full sprint southward down Padilla Bay, I sat to leeward, looked up at…
Editor’s Letter: The Season for Learning
A couple weeks ago, I sat on a yacht club lawn in a white Adirondack chair and watched as my boys and the rest of the summer sailing campers in their weeklong class put away boats. Porter, our oldest at 11, helped fold the…
Together Adventures: Family Cruising Near and Far
Over the years of cruising with our children, I’ve had a number of people contact me for advice about starting out cruising as a family, especially in the Pacific Northwest. I’m happy to oblige and provide relevant…
Sea Feasts of British Columbia
Raising the oars from the water, I let our dinghy ghost ahead into the small cove surrounded by moss covered rocks and tall conifers. A bald eagle wheeled high above the island group and, besides the rustling of water from…
Ready… Go! Jumping Off for Extended Cruising
Congratulations, you’re making the leap or are seriously scheming how to do so. After many happy long weekends and blissful week-long cruises in local waters, you’ve successfully secured a month or a summer or maybe even…
Weather Dependent: Valuable Weather Window Lessons Honed in the PNW
The author's wife Jill and son Porter look on…
Thanksgiving Aboard
Rewarding No Matter Where You Go or What You Eat The sweet smell of pumpkin pie wafted through the cabin and out of the companionway as Jill hoisted the tasty dessert up to me. Admiring it, I gently placed it under Yahtzee’s…
Predicaments in Paradise
Since buying our 1984 Grand Soleil 39, Yahtzee, in Seattle in 2012, our family has cruised over 15,000 miles from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska, south through Mexico, Central and South America, and now in…
#TBT: Fall Cruising Adventures – Circumnavigating Fidalgo Island
In our latest Throwback Thursday, 48° North Editor Andy Cross takes a look down memory lane at a classic fall cruising adventure around Fidalgo Island. “Why not go down to Deception Pass?” my buddy Mike asked as I took a…
Alluring Alaska: The Ups, Downs and Rewards of Cruising “The Last Frontier”
Yahtzee anchored and stern-tied at Fox Island……