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.


"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.
Which is the better cruising destination for sailors? One cruising couple takes a closer look. By Mike Camarata.
2015 Rolex competitor Ichiban sails down the Tasmanian Coast past a spectacular feature called the Organ Pipes. Photo by Stefano Gattini
Traveling across the world to find a place that feels just like home. By Craig Ligibel.
No one seemed to know just how far up the river you could sail. So Steve Allan decided to find out.
Even with tropical breezes and turquoise waters calling seductively from the South, Bay sailors this October can find their own patch of paradise on the Chesapeake. By Tracy Leonard.

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