News for and about cruising sailors, their regional clubs and club directory, the 100-day SpinSheet Century Club challenge, and favorite sailing destinations on the Chesapeake Bay.


Sailor Chris Smith tells how expectations and reality differed on his first Caribbean 1500.
Baltimore's Inner Harbor by Kaylie Jasinski
Whether you’re looking for family-friendly activities or offbeat excursions, we’ve got you covered.
Charter Sailing in Greece
To minimize surprises, pack two bags: one with personal items, and one as captain with a bevy of essentials. By Zuzana Prochazka.
Two accident survivors share lessons learned about lifejackets and VHF radios.
Capt. Art Pine looks at some of the safety lapses that most often get sailors in trouble on the Chesapeake Bay.
"We arrived as Carnival, the annual celebration involving lots of drinking and more than its share of crime, was just getting underway." By Scott Neuman.
Jack and Erewhon in Annapolis. Photo by Al Schreitmueller
Jack was an authentic and honest writer and an ironman of a sailor, remembers David Gendell
Looking south from the Big Game Club to the entrance to Bimini Harbor.
"I’d just graduated from college and my roommate Michael and I had chartered a Pearson 30 for the trip. We’d found three attractive student teachers on spring break to join us, and we...
Fall is Goodbye Season, and I stink at goodbyes. I am the worst person to be writing about this because I am the perfect model of what not to do. I go completely overboard wanting to shower the departing crew with attention and wine and dinners and though
"Sailors sail around, they meet other sailors, become fast and deep friends, and then sail away. Maybe forever. The end. So why do we put ourselves through this?" By Cindy Wallach.

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