How-to: Seamanship

Does the American Boat and Yacht Council require double hose clamps? …Read More

What old-fashioned boatyard practice actually increases the overwintering risk to your batteries—and maybe even your boat? …Read More

Are carbon-monoxide monitors still needed on diesel-powered boats, since diesel fuel produces less carbon monoxide than gas? …Read More

There's nothing that makes us appreciate a safe harbor as much as the hiss and tingle of a really close bolt of lightning. …Read More

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 the Ocean.”  This is the eighth in a series of periodic columns here on OceanLines featuring her irresistible recipes. Best of all for OceanLines readers, who are travelers of the [...] …Read More

When it comes to Skishing, Laura Dekker (another youngest around the world solo sailing trip), and other weird nautical news, sometimes you just have to wonder if mankind has run out of things to do. Now, we’re inventing strange and unusual activities, pushing the limits of old ones, and generally behaving like we don’t have [...] …Read More

Capt. Dave DuVall is a water person, plain and simple. He grew up on the Chesapeake Bay. His father taught him to run boats when he was 6 years old. He was crabbing and fishing by age 12. He worked in marine construction. He attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. And he spent 16 years [...] …Read More

Well, they don’t come any hotter than this.  These photos were taken overnight when the future queen of the Nordhavn fleet was released from her molds at the factory in China.  I’m going to let the photos speak for themselves, but I think you can get from them a couple of things — first, this [...] …Read More

The phone rang at 0511 and what followed was a truncated conversation with a strong-sounding Ronnie Simpson who was “inside the Gate” and—he’s now ashore—safe, after his borrowed 30-footer dropped its keel 800 miles off the coast on the return from the Singlehanded Transpac. Warrior’s Wish was returning from Hawaii to San Francisco Bay, a distance [...] …Read More

You need help with a fiberglass repair, epoxy mixes, resin formulations, or other similar questions? Who wouldn’t? When I became involved in my first substantial fiberglass project years and years ago (building and mounting a new center console for my fishboat) I learned purely by trial and error. I turned my shed into a fiberglass [...] …Read More