Moving onto a cruising boat with your partner for the first time is a big departure from life ashore. You tend to be together ...

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Here’s a recent news blast that will be of interest to the worldwide cruising community. Famed marine tech wizard, author and ...

With this issue of Cruising Compass we celebrate our 1,000th issue. We launched the newsletter in August 2001, 24 ...

The following account was written by veteran cruiser Sheldon Stuchell based on reports from the two crew aboard the cruising boat Escape and official Coast Guard reports. While the incident and the ...

BWS takes a look back at some of the famous, notable and most influential small boat cruies of all time…and many are Americans (published July 2014) You could say that the modern age of shorthanded ...

Here’s a great article by David Burch from Starpath Navigation on how to calculate the true wind and why it matters to sailors… There are several ways to define the wind. For weather work at sea we ...

When compared to other tropical cruising paradises, French Polynesia is the least likely to suffer hurricanes or cyclones (published March 2018) After the devastating 2017 hurricane season in the ...

Funny how the beginning and end of a voyage can parallel each other, even when they’re three years and thousands of miles apart (published April 2016) In 2011, when I set off from the U.S. East Coast ...

Now here’s something completely different – racing singlehanded around the world in a 19-foot sloop from Antigua to Antigua via Panama and the Cape of Good Hope. That’s right, in a 19-footer. Well, on ...

It is not the size of your boat that matters, it is the size of your dreams (published June 2018) Today’s cruising fleet is made up of boats that are much larger than they were only just a decade ago.

For a change of pace, spend a winter cruising from Florida to the Western Caribbean and back. Here’s how (published May 2018) For U.S. east coast cruisers looking to extend their cruising experience ...