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

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

That’s what happened to British skipper Peter Rutter, who is a former commodore o the Royal Ocean Racing Club, while delivering his 43-foot sloop from England to Malta in the Mediterranean. Two ...

Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks. When cruising to foreign countries, do ...

With this issue of Cruising Compass we celebrate our 1,000 th issue. We launched the newsletter in August 2001, 24 years ago and since then we have published and emailed new content every week, except ...

For the last three years I have lived on Sila, a Boréal 47, with my family. My parents wrote a while ago about living with kids on a ...

What shoreline knows not our maps? Most of them, it turns out. While satellites map much of the globe on a daily basis, there are parts of the ...

Here’an announcement from the British foul-weather gear firm Henri-Lloyd that will be of interest to all offshore sailors. Foul weather gear is an essential part of any offshore sailor’s sea bag and ...

There is a plethora of choices when it comes to sails for offshore passagemaking but as always there is the struggle between how many sails to […] Blue Water Sailing is now in its 22nd year of ...