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What do you do when you experience a dismasting at sea, 300 miles from land?
At the tail end of 1973, a young sailor launches an old boat and takes a New Year's Eve night sail to remember.
A Chesapeake liveaboard gives tips on decorating your boat for the holidays. ~by Cindy Wallach
Annapolis liveaboard sailor Cindy Fletcher-Holden remembers a Christmas she spent aboard in Portugal where she spent a season.
Annapolis Yacht Sales takes Team SpinSheet for a spin on the new Beneteau 40.1 sailboat who proved to be a nimble yet roomy cruiser.
Sailing at night, all I could see of the real Haiti ahead of me was an imposing mountainous silhouette, jagged and threatening, inky black against the starlit sky.
As with many types of big undertakings, preparing to go offshore sailing sometimes seems as if it’s more difficult than the passage itself.
Few places offer the cruising sailor the diversity of on-water experiences combined with hundreds of picturesque villages as does the...