Lessons to Re-Learn: When Cruisers Return to Land

This article was originally published in the August 2021 issue of 48° North.  Unfamiliar features have entered everyday life for the Totem crew. The galley is now called a kitchen; it includes a countertop box you put food…

How Coronavirus is Impacting Totem’s Plans

Longtime Cruising Columnists, Behan and Jamie Gifford, Share How Coronavirus is Affecting Their Impending Passage Plans Totem’s bow floats high thanks to the anchor and ground tackle that lies on the concrete dock just…

A Family Affair

The ever-evolving lessons of raising kids on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest Sitting at a table on the patio of Seattle’s Nickerson Street Saloon, Jill and I celebrated the closing of our new-to-us 1984 Grand Soleil 39…

Sweden to Seattle: RAN Sailing meets CYC

Johan Hammarlund, left, and Malin Löf address…