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 ...

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 ...

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. Many thanks to all readers who took the ...

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 ...

We learned last week that old friend Charles Tobias had passed away at his home in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 91. I got to know Charles later in his life when he was living in the BVI and focused on ...

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 ...

Good Anchorage is a leading niche innovator of Maritime information technologies, specializing in sharing live, accurate anchorage data, weather, local news and service information for vessels, yachts ...

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 ...