Cruising Under Sail

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A Surreal Year (but let’s race)
Posted on May 11th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
A NOAA view of the Gulf of Mexico on a cloudy May 10 When Guy Brierre calls 2010 “a surreal year” that means something. I got to ...

A Tall Ship Heads to Sea
Posted on May 10th 2010 - Tom Tripp
The sail training barque Picton Castle, a square-rigger registered in the Cook Islands and based in Lunenburg Harbor, Nova Scotia, is about to depart its ...

Writers on the Water
Posted on May 5th 2010 - Tom Tripp
Okay, so it’s not quite as memorable (yet?) as “Riders on the Storm,” the 1971 hit by The Doors, but a new blog by writers ...

Video Debut: The Underway Series from OceanLines, Episode 1
Posted on May 5th 2010 - Tom Tripp
By way of introducing this new video series, let me re-state what will become obvious to you:  I am a writer. And writers may have ...

A Perfect Yacht
Posted on May 3rd 2010 - Kimball Livingston
And for someone, it is the perfect yacht. Hats off to someone at Coyote Point for a classy Cal 20.

Recyclable Boat Makes Landfall
Posted on April 29th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
Plastiki, 39 days out of San Francisco and halfway to a final destination in Australia, arrived on Wednesday in the Line Islands. I gather it ...

1 Ocean, 1 Sea, 1 Lake, 1 Strait
Posted on April 27th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
From the Indian Ocean, approaching Australia after a six-month, nonstop circumnavigation, Sydney to Sydney: “Despite the fact that today started with a knockdown, a wet bunk, ...

A Grassroots Owners’ Boatshow
Posted on April 25th 2010 - Kimball Livingston
It worked, the owner-driven boatshow of the Bay Area Multihull Association. No, they didn’t have thousands of people thronging the docks, but that was ...

Sea Fare April — Victoria Allman in the Galley
Posted on April 25th 2010 - Tom Tripp
Editor’s Note — Victoria Allman is the chef aboard a 143-foot megayacht and the author of the recently released “Sea Fare:  A Chef’s Journey Across ...

Video: Running a Rough Inlet
Posted on April 24th 2010 - Tom Tripp
The video you see here was taken while departing the Fort Pierce, Florida, inlet, Friday, April 16. The tide was running out strongly and the ...