Seamanship & Navigation,Featured,Cruising Technique
Destinations: Pick Your Crossing to Haida Gwaii
October 19, 2022
Here's our latest destinations installment courtesy of SalishSeaPilot.com's Jim Burgoyne about choosing a window to transit Hecate Strait toward Haida Gwaii.
Homeward Bound, Part 3: Naha, Japan to Port Townsend
September 15, 2022
Irene’s route through Japan and across the North Pacific.
Here's…
48° North-Ullman Sails Rally Recap
September 8, 2022
A typical day of sailing during this year’s rally.…
Cruising,Cruising Destinations,Featured
Destinations: Kenai Peninsula Discovered
September 1, 2022
In our latest Throwback Thursday, find adventure and solitude in this stunning cruiser's playground. Reaching south out of Resurrection Bay past the Rugged Islands, a large easterly swell rolls from our port side, and a…
Cruising Destinations,Featured
Yahtzee’s Colombian Hurricane Home and Spa
August 25, 2022
It was about 8:15 a.m. when I climbed off Yahtzee's stern onto the dock in Cartagena. The sun had been up for a couple hours and the Caribbean heat was already blazing. As I slid into my flip-flops and shouldered my…
Cruising Destinations,Featured
Beacon Background:
Sentinels of San Juan Island
August 23, 2022
San Juan Island offers two distinctive beacons in two unique settings. Both reflect the ongoing story of mariners in the Salish Sea. When you are cruising in the area this summer, they are worth checking out by water and by…

The author settled in behind Kagán’s…
The first time we took Vela to our J/40…
The author rows across a calm stretch of…